GENEVA: An independent commission of inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council after last time’s Gaza conflict said Israel must do further than end the occupation of land Palestinians want for a state, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs called the report “ a waste of plutocrat and trouble ” that amounted to a witch- quest. Israel transacted the inquiry, criminating it of bias and barred entry to its investigators.
While urged by the 11- day May 2021 conflict in which 250 Gaza Palestinians and 13 people in Israel failed, the inquiry accreditation includes contended mortal rights abuses ahead and after that and seeks to probe the “ root causes ” of the pressures.
It cites substantiation saying Israel has “ no intention of ending the occupation ” and is pursuing “ complete control ” over what it calls the engaged Palestinian home, including East Jerusalem, which was taken by Israel in 1967.
“ Ending the occupation alone won’t be sufficient, ” the report says, prompting fresh action to insure the equal enjoyment of mortal rights.
Citing an Israeli law denying naturalisation to Palestinians married to Israelis, the report accuses the country of swinging “ different civil status, rights and legal protection ” for Arab nonages. Israel says similar measures guard public security and the country’s Jewish character.
The Israel ministry added “ It’s a prejudiced and one- sided report tainted with abomination for the state of Israel and grounded on a long series of former one- sided and prejudiced reports. ” Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 but, with the help of Egypt, clamps down on the borders of the enclave now governed by Hamas. Palestinian authorities have limited tone- rule in the West Bank, which is dotted with Israeli agreements.
Hamas, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction, opened the May 2021 war with rocket attacks following moves to evict Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, and in retribution for Israeli police clashes with Palestinians near the Al Aqsa Mosque.
