CAIRO – The Arab League has welcomed a report issued days ago by the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Assistant Arab League secretary general for Palestine affairs Said Abu Ali said Israeli crimes and the expulsion of Palestinians from their houses amount to war crimes.
This came as the Palestinian Foreign Ministry asserted the need for the international community to end the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki stressed in a statement carried by WAFA the importance of the UN Commission of Inquiry’s conclusions that there are reasonable grounds that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land has become illegal under international law due to its prolongation.
He stressed the importance of the Commission’s call for the United Nations General Assembly to issue an urgent resolution requesting the ICC to submit an advisory opinion on the legal consequences arising from Israel’s continued refusal to end its illegal occupation of Palestine.
Al-Maliki called on the international community and the UN Security Council to assume their responsibilities and act quickly to confront the dangerous reality imposed by the Israeli settlements that create permanent Israeli control over the West Bank.
Discussion about this post