NEW DELHI: Palestine international ministry Riad Malki has written to his counterpart S Jaishankar expressing disappointment in India’s determination to abstain from a vote in the UNHRC on alleged human rights violations and abuses throughout the Israel-Palestine struggle.
Malki stated in the letter which India had missed a chance to combine the worldwide community in the turning point, both essential and long overdue,” about the road to accountability, peace and justice.
India had abstained from voting on a UN Human Rights Council resolution starting commission of inquiry to investigate alleged human rights violations and abuses from’Occupied Palestinian Territory’, such as East Jerusalem, and also in Israel, during the Israel-Palestine battle.
India was one of the 14 nations to abstain from voting on the resolution.
Israel refused the settlement explaining it as an effort to”whitewash offenses perpetrated by terror company Hamas”.
The resolution was passed with 24 states voting in favor.
Malki stated India’s abstention stifled the major function of Human Rights Council at advancing human rights for all individuals, including the ones of the people.
“The settlement isn’t an aberration into the Human Rights Council.
It’s the by-product of comprehensive multilateral consultations.
It’s the consolidation of decades and comprehensive investigations into and reporting to Israel’s tomb violations by countries, United Nations specialists, Human Rights Treaty bodies, and worldwide organisations,” explained Malki.
He said”root causes of the injustice which befell the Palestinian people, ” the decade-long dispossession, displacement, colonization, oppression of the Palestinian people as well as also the denial and violation of the every individual rights by Israel, the occupying power, has to be siphoned”.
He added, the problem won’t just stay volatile but will keep on threatening with far-reaching and grave consequences.