According to the Human Rights Council, the "main causes" of the tensions and instability are the occupation of Palestinian territories and discrimination against Palestinians. UN man, published in a Tuesday report.
Israel refused to cooperate with this commission and responded by saying that the report was biased and biased, disqualified from its hatred of Israel and based upon a long series of biased reports," according to a Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release.
"The conclusions and recommendations regarding the root causes of this conflict (editor's note), point overwhelmingly towards Israel, which is what we analyze as an indicator for the asymmetrical nature and reality of one state occupying the other," writes Navanethem Pillay, the South African former High Commissioner to Human Rights. This first report of this commission states that it is crucial to end the violence cycle by ending Israel's occupation of territories.
The report states that "What has become an environment of perpetual occupation has been cited both by Palestinian and Israeli stakeholders as one the roots of persistent tensions, instability, and protracted conflict both within the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem" The 18-page document was submitted to Israeli and Palestinian authorities before it was published.
Human Rights Council mandated the international commission last year to investigate allegations of human rights violations in Israel and the Palestinian Territories since April 13, 2021. The Jewish state accuses Navanethem Pilay of being an anti-Israel activist. It believes the investigation has "ignored real reasons Israel decided to defend its citizens from terrorist organizations that commit a double war crime, shooting civilians in Gaza and killing them".
According to local authorities, the commission was established following the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas that erupted in May 2021. 260 Palestinians were killed during Israeli strikes on Gaza. According to the army and police, 13 Israelis were killed by rocket fire from Gaza. The commission has reviewed all the existing resolutions and recommendations, but has reiterated its desire to conduct its own investigation.
Navanethem Pillay thinks that the past recommendations have been "largely ignored", including calls for Israel's accountability for violating humanitarian and human rights laws, as well as for indiscriminate missile fire. Palestinian armed groups have used violence against Israel to their advantage. The President accuses "It is this inability to implement, coupled with a feeling of impunity, and the very clear evidence of Israel's continued discrimination against Palestinians, that lie at the core of these repeated violations both within the Occupied Palestinian Territories including in East Jerusalem and Israel".
Twenty students and reservists from the Israeli army protested this Tuesday against the publication of the report in front of Geneva's United Nations Headquarters.
