Israel imposes on Palestinians 'a reality of apartheid in a post-apartheid world' says UN report
Demonstration at the Qalandiya checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, on May 11, 2021 (illustration image).
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Michael Lynk, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in “
the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967
” published his last report before ending his mandate and being replaced by Francesca Albanes.
And he concludes that the situation and the evidence in force are satisfactory to speak of the existence of an apartheid that Israel imposes on the Palestinians.
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From our correspondent in Ramallah
,
Alice Froussard
“
Israel imposed on Palestine a reality of apartheid in a post-apartheid world
”.
This is the conclusion of the twenty-page report by Michael Lynk.
The vocabulary is strong, it connects the arguments: "
There is an institutionalized regime of oppression and systematic racial discrimination, there is the maintenance of a system of domination of one racial-national-ethnic group over another, and this system intends to remain permanent, relying on the practice of inhumane acts… all of this falls within the definition of apartheid
”, writes the UN special rapporteur.
The international community must react
In his recommendations, he also calls on the international community to react, to “
impose significant consequences on the Israeli authorities to put an end to the occupation and apartheid
”.
South Africa, Malaysia and Namibia are among those who also agree with this conclusion.
A position already defended for several years by Palestinian human rights NGOs, then, since 2021, by
the Israeli NGO B'Tselem
, followed by Human Rights Watch and finally Amnesty International.
One more voice
A conclusion that comes just months after an Amnesty International report on the issue, a report that the Palestinians had welcomed, but which the Israelis accused of being anti-Semitic.
It is not the first time, but the United Nations thus adds,
via
its special rapporteur, one more voice to those who have already spoken of apartheid.
►Also read:
Israeli policy towards the Palestinians described as "apartheid" by Amnesty
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