A United Nations commission established in 2021 to investigate violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in Israel and the Palestinian territories complains that the Israeli government is obstructing its work.
Investigators are currently investigating the events of October 7 and the subsequent war against the terrorist organization Hamas. “As far as the Israeli government is concerned, what we see so far is not just a lack of cooperation, but an active obstruction of our efforts to obtain evidence of the events in southern Israel through Israeli witnesses and victims,” said Chris Sidoti. of the commission of inquiry set up in Geneva on Tuesday by the UN Human Rights Council.
Commission: “Not given access”
“I regret that people in Israel who want to speak to us are denied this opportunity because we are not allowed access to Israel,” said the commission’s chairman, former UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay.
Israel rejected the accusations and in turn leveled accusations against the commission. UN representatives have already been to the country and met with survivors and victims of the October 7 attack. But the 1,200 victims, the raped women and girls and the hostages in the Gaza Strip know very well that they will not be treated fairly or with dignity by this commission and its members.
Commission “anti-Semitic and anti-Israel”
After all, the committee has made ‘anti-Semitic and anti-Israel’ statements in the past. One of the representatives, Indian Miloon Kothari, apologized in 2022 after speaking in an interview about a ‘Jewish lobby’.
Source: Krone
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