Situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BARF)

http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGMDE150632006 ^ | July 5 2006

[markedmannerf]

(Geneva) -- As the UN Human Rights Council (the Council) convenes in its first ever Special Session to consider the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Amnesty International today reiterated its call on the UN to assemble and deploy a team of authoritative international experts to Israel and the Occupied Territories, with a mandate to carry out an independent and thorough investigation into the deteriorating human rights situation in the Gaza Strip (see http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE150542006). Such experts should investigate the growing number of killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces and the deliberate and disproportionate attacks by Israeli forces against civilian property and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, as well as the launching of 'qassam' rockets by Palestinian armed groups from the Gaza Strip into nearby areas in Israel.

Such an investigation should be adequately resourced. It should be conducted by impartial investigators with the necessary expertise in conducting criminal and forensic investigations. It should include individuals who are expert in the fields of forensics, ballistics, international human rights and humanitarian law. All parties -- Israeli and Palestinian -- should agree to cooperate fully and grant the experts unimpeded access to people, places and documents.

Amnesty International believes that the gravity of the current situation requires a comprehensive approach whereby all aspects of the current crisis, including the factors contributing to it, are investigated. The aims should be to establish the respective responsibilities of all concerned parties and to identify concrete steps that should be taken by each party in order to ensure the protection of the civilian population and to provide effective and accessible remedies for the abuses the parties have committed.

[SmithL]

Things will improve considerably once all the terrorists have been killed or captured.

[Mad Dawg]

Thanks for the post.

You know you're going to be reading, ah, fertilizer of the intact male bovine kind when anybody refers to "occupied Palestinian Territories". "Imperfectly pacified areas from which shells, mortars, and rockets used to be launched against Israelis in an effort to terrorize them and drive them away" is a more accurate description, I believe, but it doesn't have anything like the same condemnatory vibe, do it?

[Tulane]

The Palestinian government attacks and kidnaps a soldier, and amnesty is upset that the Israel responds?

Good grief. What has happened to this organization.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They heard about the $100 million headed in from the Arabs and would like to be in line for their cut.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Pass the Pepto alert!

[pabianice]

Strange... not a word about Jewish babies blown to bloody rags by Muslim savages...

[Salem]

Oh, brother. And all these "experts" will, of course, have to be compensated—for something everybody already knows.

Yet, SmithL summarizes it well in post 2.

Somebody inform Amnesty International.

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[sageb1]

I think it's time to investigate and expose Amnesty International in the same way we have investigated and exposed the corruption in the U.N.

[Brit1]

Amnesty..who????????

[Lazamataz]

Situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

In order to have human rights, you need humans.

Palestinians aren't.

[andy58-in-nh]

What are the "Occupied Palestinian Territories"?

I think that's called: "Israel". Here is a country repeatedly attacked and invaded, that repels its attackers and seizes some of the aggressors' territory as a buffer. Has there ever been another case in recorded history where the victor is denied the right to hold such land?

[andy58-in-nh]

I think it's time to investigate and expose Amnesty International in the same way we have investigated and exposed the corruption in the U.N.

Here is one such exposé:

Amnesty: For North Korea

[sageb1]

Thanks!

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