The Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions (ANHRI) confirmed that the Israeli occupation’s crimes against civilians in the Gaza Strip amount to war crimes, warning against the continued escalation of aggression and crimes by the occupation forces and their expansion of their military operations against civilians in Gaza.
The closing statement of the emergency meeting held by the network via video call - Tuesday - said that the silence of the international community and the impunity of the occupying power is what encouraged it to persist in its aggression and commit more crimes in the Gaza Strip and the entire occupied Palestinian territories.
The organization, which is based in the Qatari capital, Doha, stressed that holding the international community accountable to the occupying power for its grave crimes against the Palestinians in the occupied territories will be less costly than dealing with the various humanitarian, social, economic and political repercussions that the aggression on the Gaza Strip and the implementation of the purification policy will have Ethnic in occupied Jerusalem.
The network stated that the Israeli occupation forces, with their systematic aggression, deliberately target the homes of safe Palestinians and demolish them on their heads, causing the annihilation of entire families, in addition to deliberately targeting public facilities in an organized manner and damaging them on the basis of revenge and collective punishment, causing dozens of martyrs and hundreds of wounded, with suspicion By using internationally prohibited weapons and gases.
The crossings are closed
The Arab Network for Human Rights Institutions warned that the occupation authorities continue to completely close the Gaza crossings to the movement of citizens, close the sea to fishermen, while preventing the entry of food, medical supplies, medicines and fuel supplies, and the catastrophic repercussions for the conditions of the residents of the Gaza Strip.
Regarding the situation in Jerusalem and the West Bank, the network confirmed that the Palestinian people in Jerusalem are facing a policy of ethnic cleansing that appears in the attempt to forcibly displace dozens of Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, seize their homes located in the heart of the city, as well as the continuous attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque.
She indicated that what is happening in Jerusalem comes within the framework of the occupation authorities ’endeavors to change the demographic composition of the city and tighten their control over it, and to replace its settlers in the place of the Palestinian population, in clear violation of the principles of international law that considers East Jerusalem an occupied land.
Israel deliberately targeting homes of safe Palestinians and demolishing them over their heads (Anatolia)
A retaliatory war
The network considered that the citizens of the occupied West Bank are exposed to a new occupation attack that has caused the death of more than 20 Palestinians in different areas of the West Bank since the start of the aggression on Al-Aqsa, and during confrontations that have condemned the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and other reprisal incidents, which threatens the coming settlers.
The Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions held the Israeli occupation full responsibility for the lives of Palestinians in the occupied territories, as well as its responsibility for the plan of expulsion and forced displacement of dozens of Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and the profound humanitarian impacts and repercussions for this on the affected families.
It called on the international community, especially the contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilians in Time of War of 1949, to stand before their legal and moral obligations to provide protection for Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories, and to move urgently and take effective measures to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The emergency meeting of the Executive Committee of the Arab Network was held at the invitation of the Independent Commission for Human Rights in Palestine, which chairs the Arab Network in its current session, and in the presence of the National Human Rights Institutions members in Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Mauritania and Sudan.