Israeli envoy rips up Human Rights Council's annual report
The Israeli regime's ambassador to the United Nations tears up a copy of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)'s annual report while delivering a speech to the world body's General Assembly.
Gilad Erdan took the move on Friday after issuing a tirade, in which he accused the UNHRC of “obsessive anti-Israel bias” and called the report "anti-Semitic," "distorted" and "one-sided.”
The report’s only place was “in the dustbin of anti-Semitism,” he said, before ripping up the copy and leaving the podium.
The report has presented findings of an investigative body set up to examine the devastating and deadly effects of Israel's war against the already Tel Aviv-blockaded Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip in May.
It said the UNHCR was "gravely concerned" about both the siege and "the widespread destruction and continued impediments to the reconstruction process by Israel" on the human rights situation.
Concerning the West Bank, another Palestinian territory that the regime has been occupying since 1967, it censured Tel Aviv's construction of a separation wall there, including around East al-Quds, which Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.
The UNHCR underlined "the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force," and voiced deep concern "at the fragmentation of the occupied Palestinian territory," including East al-Quds, through illegal settlement activities and other measures.
The regime has built hundreds of settlements in the West Bank since occupying the territory. The international community considers the structures to be illegal due to their construction on occupied land.
The UNHCR also said it was "gravely concerned that long-standing impunity for international law violations has allowed for the recurrence of grave violations without consequence."
Tel Aviv has invariably avoided all attempts at bringing it to account over its decades-long aggression against Palestinians and other regional nations thanks to staunch support by the United States, its oldest and strongest ally.
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