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Geneva – Three European countries have voted against the Human Rights Council's decision to establish an international independent investigation commission to probe Israel's human rights violations, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said today .
Euro-Med Monitor: European countries opposition to investigate violations in oPt obstructs justice
GENEVA, Wednesday, June 02, 2021 (WAFA) - Three European countries have voted against the Human Rights Council s decision to establish an international independent investigation commission to probe Israel s human rights violations, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said today in a statement. Such an attitude would undermine efforts aiming to bring accountability and achieve justice, it said.
Euro-Med Monitor has sent written letters to foreign ministers in Germany, Britain, and Austria, expressing deep concern over their votes against forming an investigation committee.
Chairman of Euro-Med Monitor Ramy Abdu said in the letter that we find it disappointing that multiple European council members either abstained or voted against an impartial effort towards transparency and accountability .
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Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 5:52 am
Geneva - Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor sent an
urgent memorandum to the European Union’s foreign
ministers on Sunday evening before their meeting to discuss
the situation in the Gaza Strip tomorrow. The organization
called on the EU countries to pressure Israel to stop its
violent and disproportionate attacks on the Strip.
In
the memorandum, Euro-Med Monitor’s chairman, Ramy Abdu,
reviewed the latest Israeli violations during the military
attack on the Gaza Strip, which has so far killed about 200
Palestinians and injured more than 1,500 others.
Abdu
said the Israeli Air Force had committed, during the past