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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:04:43 +0100
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Subject: Israel/Occupied Territories: Statement to the UN Commission of Human
Rights
* News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty
International *
5 April 2002
MDE 15/033/2002
60/02
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
58th Session (18 March ? 29 April 2002)
Item 4: Special Sitting in response to the High Commissioner's
Statement on the
Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
JOINT STATEMENT BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS
Distributed on 5 April 2002
Chairperson
There are many victims of the grave abuses of human rights in
Israel and the Occupied Territories over the past week. There are
the Palestinians, including medical workers, who have been killed
unlawfully by the Israeli Defence Forces. There are the Israeli
civilians who have been deliberately targeted by Palestinian
armed groups and individuals. Palestinians have also been
unlawfully killed by other Palestinians.
Palestinians have been confined to their houses, shot if they
ventured out, and left without electricity, water and diminishing
food supplies for days. There are the hundreds of Palestinians
who have been arrested; ill-treated and humiliated during their
detention; and their families who enquire for news of their
relatives and fear they may be dead. There are Palestinians,
mostly children, whose homes have been destroyed and their
belongings shattered. There are the Palestinian human rights
organizations, who try to monitor and investigate the human
rights violations which the Israeli State should investigate and
whose offices have been trashed by the IDF, and the journalists
who are targeted or expelled as they try to report what is
carried out in secrecy.
These are all victims over the past week in a human rights crisis
which has continued unresolved for decades. But there is another
victim: the credibility of the system of international human
rights and humanitarian law which the international community has
established in the aftermath of World War II. If the
international community talks, but fails to act, while the
fundamental principles of human rights and humanitarian law are
violated then the Commission on Human Rights has betrayed the
trust vested in it.
In the name of Amnesty International and the International
Commission of Jurists, we urge the Commission to support the call
to send international monitors to the region with a strong and
transparent human rights mandate. We support the proposal of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights that the Commission on Human
Rights send a visiting mission to the area. We urge the
Commission to send a strong message upholding respect for human
rights. There can be no durable ceasefire or peace agreement
unless the fundamental human rights of all Palestinians and all
Israelis are addressed.
THANKYOU CHAIRPERSON.
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