Occupied Palestine .. In a special meeting for the AOHR Executive Committee : The US Administration is a complicit in the Genocide against Palestinians

  In connection with the serious developments in the resumption of the Israeli occupation’s aggression against the Gaza Strip since the dawn of March 18, which led in its first Four hours to the killing of about 400 Palestinian civilians, including approximately 200 children and 100 women, in addition to hundreds of injured, the Executive Committee of the

Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) held an special meeting on Thursday, March 20, in which it heard reports and a briefing from the AOHR’s technical secretariat on the significant deterioration levels that followed after the Israeli occupation prevented the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip in the beginning of this month.

   The reports indicated that following the end of the field tour of the Joint Mission to document the testimonies of Palestinian enjured receiving medical care in Egyptian hospitals, the occupation authorities proceeded to :

     – Stopping the flow of essential and life saving humanitarian aid to the population in the Gaza Strip, which constitutes a brutal use of the weapon of hunger against civilians

     – The cessation of aid also poses serious risks to the health situation due to severe shortages of medicine, medical supplies and equipment, including the amputation of seven children’s limbs without anesthesia in less than two hours as a result of Israeli air strikes.

    – the scarcity of clean drinking water sources, thus deliberately causing thirst The complete cut-off of power to the Gaza Strip, which poses an imminent threat to the fragile health structure, which has only recovered a fraction of its health.

   According to the briefing, the above factors constitute a resumption and continuation of the crime of Genocide on the one hand, as well as the deliberate expansion of the targeting of residential houses in a way that led to the removal of entire families from the civil registry, in parallel with the targeting of the United Nations Office for Project Services in the Gaza Strip, bringing the number of UN employees killed by the Israeli occupation up to 281 UN employees, and the bombing of the Turkish Friendship Hospital after it was rigged to make the building unfit to operate again as a medical facility.

In the discussions, members of the Executive Committee agreed that the US administration bears the responsibility of being a full and equal partner with the Israeli occupation in committing the crime of Genocide and other war crimes, crimes against humanity, the crime of aggression and gross violations of human rights.

   The members emphasized that the goal was and remains the forced displacement of Gazans from the Strip, which is an attempt to undermine the legitimate and inalienable Palestinian rights, and stressed that the occupation’s facilitation of the migration of some Palestinians from the Strip under the name of “voluntary migration” remains in the context of the crime of forced eviction prohibited by international law.

     The members stressed that the occupation is simultaneously seeking to annex the occupied West Bank by intensifying military deployment, accelerating the pace of settlement and unlawfully legitimizing settlements, at a time when the number of displaced persons has reached about 60,000 people, not just 40,000.

    The members expressed their disappointment at the inaction of European positions, noting the failure to convene the Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, which was supposed to be held on March 7, due to the lack of agreement on the final statement, as well as the European failure to implement the International Criminal Court’s warrant for the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his trip to Washington early last month, stressing that European failure to implement the current court orders – and other upcoming warrants – will be a declaration of death for the current international system and the values it contains, which Europe supposedly carried over the eight decades of its existence.

   In line with the resolutions of the special Arab summit in Cairo on March 4, and the coordination towards the Arab plan for reconstruction in Gaza, which has gained increasing Islamic, European and international support, and based on item 19 of the final declaration to form a legal committee of Arab states parties to the Genocide Convention, the AOHR Executive Committee called for a collective Arab accession to the South African lawsuit against Israel for the crime of Genocide, activating its obligations and urging all states parties to take unilateral measures against the Genocide that Israel continues, including cutting and reducing the diplomatic, commercial and economic relations with Israel.

   The committee decided to remain in session and receive daily updates on the AOHR’s actions in the political and legal fields, especially in the field of judicial documentation of violations.

   The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Mr. Alaa Shalaby, President of the organization, Ms. Maha Alborjas, Secretary General of the organization, Mr. Essam Younis, Vice President of the organization, Dr. Niveen Massad, member of the AOHR Executive Committee, and Dr. Abdel Moneim Al-Har, member of the AOHR Executive Committee – Treasurer. Mr. Mohamed Radi, Executive Director of the organization, and Mr. Ahmed Reda, Director of the Legal Unit, participated in the activities of the meeting.

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