Israel Urges UN to Abolish Investigation Commission for Palestinian Territories
Israel has urged the UN Human Rights Council to abolish the commission of inquiry into human rights violations in the Palestinian territories and Israel, according to Reuters.
Israel also accused the council of bias and discrimination.
In the message sent on Wednesday, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Daniel Meron, said The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, discriminated against his country.
“The Commission of Inquiry, both in its mandate and in the work of its members, constitutes nothing less than a manifestation of the institutional discrimination against Israel in the Human Rights Council,” read the letter.
Israel has repeatedly criticized findings by the UN-mandated commission, that has denounced the Israeli military’s actions since it has launched its military campaign in Gaza in October 2023.
Council spokesperson Pascal Sim said that Council President Jurg Lauber had already received the letter, but it would be up to the Council’s 47 members to abolish the commission.
In March, the commission concluded that Israel had carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians during its war in Gaza.
Since the beginning of Hamas-Israel War in Gaza in 2023, the Israeli strikes have killed more than 57,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 137,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
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