Last week, Israel found itself isolated and condemned in Geneva, as
the United Nations Human Rights Council passed four damning resolutions,
each by 46-1. The resolutions testify to grave violations of
international law, including the Geneva Conventions, as well as
systematic discrimination and wide-scale human rights abuses.
Settlements, whose illegality is confirmed in the resolutions, are
described as entailing “the confiscation of land, the forced
displacement of Palestinian civilians, including Bedouin families, the
exploitation of natural resources and other actions against the
Palestinian civilian population”.
The resolutions also cite “the continuing demolition of Palestinian
homes and eviction of Palestinian families from [East Jerusalem]“, “the
destruction of orchards and crops”, the “expulsion of Palestinians”, a
“two-tier legal system”, and a “discriminatory allocation of water
resources”.
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