Posted on 10/20/22
| News Source: i24
The report asks UN member states to prosecute Israeli leaders
The UN Commission of Inquiry into Human Rights Violations in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Thursday published its second report accusing Israel of violating international law.
In this document the commission headed by former UN human rights official Navi Pillay calls on the Security Council to put an end to the "permanent occupation" of the Palestinian Territories by Israel and asks the various UN member states to prosecute Israeli leaders.
The 28-page report, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly on October 27, accuses Israel of “violating international law by making permanent its control over the West Bank” and “annexing Palestinian-claimed lands of Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as Syrian land in the Golan Heights."
"Israeli's actions constituting de facto annexation include the expropriation of land and natural resources, the establishment of settlements and outposts, the maintenance of a restrictive and discriminatory planning and construction regime for Palestinians and the extraterritorial extension of Israeli law to Israeli settlers in the West Bank,” the report read.