Qatar

Geneva/ Information Office/ 27 June 2016/ The State of Qatar has reiterated its firm continued position in support of the Palestinian people until they obtain all of their legitimate rights, and most importantly their right to self-determination and establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. This came in Qatar's speech delivered today by HE Ambassador Faisal bin Abdullah Al Henzab, Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations and other International Organizations Office at Geneva at the 32nd Human Rights Council session, item (7) Under the general debate titled the human rights situation in Palestine and in the other occupied Arab territories. HE Ambassador Al Henzab stressed the importance of participation and to keep the seventh item on the agenda of the Human Rights Council's as of its great significance in documenting violations and crimes committed by Israel, the occupying power, against the Palestinian people, and to shed light on them, in order to reflect the daily suffering of the Palestinians under the brutal occupation which is extended more than 68 years . He added that the continuation of Israeli settlement expansion, forced evictions, house demolitions, land confiscation, the construction of the apartheid wall, and subjected Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including women and children to torture and killing , and the continuation of retaliation policies and collective punishment, and the increasing attacks by Israeli settlers on the lives and property of the Palestinian people, and violating the sanctity of the Aqsa mosque and attacks on worshipers constitute serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. He said such policies violations make the election of Israel recently for the presidency of the legal Committee of the General Assembly, unacceptable given the record disgraceful and its crimes and violations and non-compliance with several laws and treaties international and UN resolutions, HE Ambassador Al Henzab added. He also said it was regrettable that the international community fails to put an end to Israel's manipulation of legitimacy and international efforts to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue, stressing and the time has come for the international community to shoulder its full responsibility moral and legal responsibility towards ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Arab lands, and to force Israel to comply with their obligations under international law. "Israel must understand that the continuation of racial policies and practices that not believing in peace, ending the occupation, and seeking to spread terror and instability in the region would not break the will and steadfastness of the Palestinian people against the occupation and their struggle to regain all their legitimate rights, HE Ambassador Al Henzab said, adding that such policies would further contribute to failure of the two-state solution and undermine all peace efforts. "