World failing Palestinians as it failed victims of genocide in Rwanda, Bosnia: UN expert
The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory has equated the world’s failure to protect Palestinians from Israeli atrocities to earlier failures in protecting victims during the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia.
In a post on social media, Francesca Albanese said violence against Palestinians was “predictably” escalating in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem where 637 people – including 151 children – have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers since October.
Albanese described as “deeply alarming” Israel’s foreign minister saying that the occupied West Bank should be treated the same as Gaza – where more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in 11 months of war waged by Israeli forces.
“Are we blind to history repeating?” Albanese asks.
“The world’s failure to protect Palestinians echoes its failures with Bosnians and Tutsis, despite promises made after the Holocaust to prevent such atrocities,” she said.
“Human rights are being buried altogether, one by one.”
EMERGENCY IN THE WEST BANK & EAST JERUSALEM:
Predictably, violence against all Palestinians under Israel's unlawful occupation is dangerously escalating. In the past 11 months, Israeli forces have killed 637 Palestinians, including 151 children, amid military assaults, raids,…
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) August 29, 2024
Five Palestinian children killed in occupied West Bank since Sunday: Advocacy group
Child rights advocacy group Defence for Children International has again called for an arms embargo to be placed on Israel as Israeli forces killed five more Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank this week.
The slain Palestinian boys include two 13-year-olds, a 15-year-old, and two 17-year-olds, Defence of Children International – Palestine (DCIP) said in a statement, calling for action against Israel to stop the “relentless killing of Palestinian children”.
On Sunday night, Mosab Hassan Ali Moqasqas, 17, was shot and killed by Israeli forces north of Salfit city in the West Bank.
On Monday night, Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Elian, 13, and Adnan Aysar Adnan Jaber, 15, were killed by an Israeli drone-fired missile in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem city.
Then, on Wednesday, two brothers – Murad, 13, and Mohammad Masoud Mohammad Na’ja, 17 – were killed by Israeli drone fire in the Far’a refugee camp in the north of the West Bank.
“Years of systemic impunity has created a situation where Israeli forces kill Palestinian children without limit or consequence,” DCIP’s Ayed Abu Eqtaish said.
“As Israeli forces bomb and starve Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip”, Abu Eqtaish said, they are now also “targeting children in the occupied West Bank with lethal force”.
🧵Thread: Israeli forces have killed five Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank since Sunday.
Nowhere is safe for Palestinian children. Countries should enact an arms embargo immediately to force the Israeli military to stop its relentless killing of Palestinian children.
— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) August 29, 2024
