Palestinians have lost faith in UN, intl. community: Activist
Press TV has carried out an interview with Tahseen Elayyan, with al-Haq Human Rights Organization in Ramallah, about the ongoing deadly violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as Israeli forces kill a Palestinian man during a raid on a hospital.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Surely, raiding a hospital and killing a patient over there is against all forms of human rights laws. What do you make of it? Do you think that there is going to be enough uproar against it in the international community and media?
Elayyan: In fact, we are doing our best in order to document and monitor all of these violations that are committed by Israeli occupying forces in order to provide such information to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to help her (Fatou Bensouda) with preliminary investigation that she started by the beginning this year. But we are not very optimistic of the results and I mean that we have to be very patient when it comes to concrete results on the ground.
What happened today is not a unique case of willful killing; it is repeated almost every day in the occupied Palestinian territory. The thing that can be said about this attack or the raid on the al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron (al-Khalil) is that it is a case of perfidy which is prohibited on the international humanitarian law that might be war crime that entails individual criminal responsibility.
Press TV: Israel has been violating international law as well as humanitarian law day in and day out against Palestinians be it through settlement construction or through the detention of 12-year-old Palestinian children, etc. How long are we going to see this continue without international community like the UN, like the International Criminal Court (ICC) taking action?
Elayyan: Actually, all Palestinians have lost faith in international law and the international community and we believe that unless concrete steps are taken by the international community, namely the United Nations (UN), we do not believe that the situation will change soon. So we are urging the international community to take the steps in order to tackle the coup, the root causes of the conflict in the region rather than the results of Israeli violations. So unless there are concrete steps, Palestinians will continue to suffer and Israel will continue to commit its violations with impunity.
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