{"id":265349,"date":"2021-10-25T15:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=265349"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:46:10","slug":"special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-opt-calls-for-brave-new-approach-to-end-israeli-occupation-of-palestine-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-opt-calls-for-brave-new-approach-to-end-israeli-occupation-of-palestine-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in OPT Calls for \u201cBrave\u201d New Approach to End Israeli Occupation of Palestine – Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n

NEW YORK (25 October 2021) \u2013 A new \u201cimaginative and brave\u201d playbook is needed to achieve the globally agreed goal to end the 54-year-old Israeli occupation and secure Palestine\u2019s self-determination, a UN human rights expert told the General Assembly today.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday\u2019s playbook \u2026 has only led to repeated diplomatic\u00a0cul-de-sacs<\/em>, while enabling the patterns of human rights abuses and an endless occupation to continue largely unimpeded,\u201d said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. \u201cThis has been a political failure of the first order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynk\u2019s annual report to the General Assembly focused on the effectiveness of four of the influential international actors involved in the Middle East process and the supervision of the Israeli occupation: the United States, the European Union, the World Bank and the Quartet (UN, EU, USA and Russia).<\/p>\n

\u201cBy not imposing a meaningful cost on Israel for its endless occupation, the policies of these four actors \u2013 inadvertently or not \u2013 have been contributing to the consolidation of Israeli control over the occupied Palestinian territory,\u201d Lynk said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe occupation is more embedded than ever. The living conditions of the Palestinians, let alone their political future, have become even more precarious. Israel\u2019s defiance has gone almost completely unchecked. The peace process is moribund, if not comatose, and there is no serious talk about reviving it. We are witnessing not a Palestinian state-in-the-making, but the strengthening of a one state reality of unequal rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecent trends on the ground are getting worse, not better,\u201d Lynk warned. \u201cThe Israeli settlement population is approaching 700,000 settlers. The network of roads and utilities connecting the settlements to Israel and each other is expanding. Settler attacks against Palestinians are sustaining a coercive environment. Gaza remains under a tight blockade, which deepens its impoverishment and distress. And the amount of violence required by Israel to maintain the occupation contains to rise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ending the longest occupation in the modern word, enabling Palestinian self-determination and providing peace, security and a prosperous and shared future for both Israelis and Palestinians requires the international community to adopt the following five principles to achieving the international community\u2019s goals of peace, security and justice:<\/p>\n