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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel's UN envoy tears up Human Rights Council report</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">October 30, 2021</div>
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<p>Israeli Envoy to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan on Friday<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-un-envoy-tears-up-human-rights-council-report-at-general-assembly-1.10337913" target="_blank"> literally tore to pieces the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)'s annual report</a> while on the podium of the UN General Assembly, claiming it was biassed against Israel, news agencies reported.</p>
<p>The UNHRC held a special hearing at the General Assembly while its
president, Michelle Bachelet, presented the annual report to all member
states.</p>
<p>In the report, the findings of an investigative committee founded
after the Israeli occupation's offensive on Gaza that killed 260
Palestinians, including 67 children, 40 women, and 16 elderly, were
presented.</p>
<p>Several whole families were killed in the offensive, including <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210728-hrw-israel-committed-apparent-war-crimes-in-gaza-attacks-in-may/">senior doctor Ayman Abu Al-Ouf and his family</a>.</p>
<p>The report condemned and criticised Israel for the brutal attacks.</p>
<p>In the <a href="https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Annual%20Report%20of%20the%20Human%20Rights%20Council%20%28A-76-53-Add.1%29%20%28Advance%20Unedited%20Version%29.pdf" target="_blank">report</a>, the UNHRC condemned:</p>
<blockquote><p>The construction of the wall being built by Israel, the
occupying power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and
around East Jerusalem, and its associated regime are contrary to
international law.</p></blockquote>
<p>The UNHRC reaffirmed: "The principle of the inadmissibility of the
acquisition of territory by force, and deeply concerned at the
fragmentation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem, through settlement activities and other measures."</p>
<p>It also said it was: "Gravely concerned that long-standing impunity
for international law violations has allowed for the recurrence of grave
violations without consequence."</p>
<p>The report stressed the importance of ending Israel's impunity in
order to: "Ensure justice and access to an effective remedy, deter
further violations, protect civilians and promote peace."</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_389259" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_0367-scaled.jpg?fit=933%2C583&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1" alt="Israeli forces hang the body of a Palestinian man from a bulldozer - Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="452" height="282"></p><p class="gmail-wp-caption-text">Israeli forces hang the body of a Palestinian man from a bulldozer – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]</p></div><p>It
also expressed its: "Grave concern at reports of serious human rights
violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law,
including possible war crimes and crimes against humanity, in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem."</p>
<p>It deplored: "The continuing and negative consequences of the
conflicts in and around the Gaza Strip, including all casualties,
particularly among Palestinian civilians, including children, and
ongoing violations of international law."</p>
<p>The report called for: "Full respect for international humanitarian
and human rights law and for the principles of legality, distinction,
precaution, and proportionality."</p>
<p>It also said that it was: "Gravely concerned about the dire
humanitarian, socioeconomic and security situation in the Gaza Strip,
including that resulting from the prolonged closures and severe economic
and movement restrictions that in effect amount to a blockade, and
about the short and longterm detrimental impact of this situation, and
the widespread destruction and continued impediments to the
reconstruction process by Israel, the occupying Power, on the human
rights situation."</p>
<p>Erdan could not bear to accept this disclosure of Israeli crimes and tore a copy of the report into pieces.</p>
<p>"The Human Rights Council attacked and condemned Israel in 95
resolutions compared to 142 resolutions against the rest of the world,"
Erdan expressed. "This distorted and one-sided report's place is in the
dustbin of anti-Semitism," he claimed.</p>
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