Malki: Palestinian people have long suffered the injustices and frustrations of double standards

28-02-2022

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad al-Malki maintained that the Palestinian people have long suffered the injustices and frustrations of double standards, where Israel, the occupying Power, is granted an indefensible status of exceptional treatment that allows it to continue committing crimes with complete and abject impunity. During a speech Malki delivered at the High-Level Segment of the Forty-Ninth Regular Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva, he emphasized the suffering of hundreds of Palestinian families in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank who live with the intolerable anxiety of pending dispossession. In Sheikh Jarah and Silwan, Palestinian families are in the midst of the battle of their lives to protect their homes from confiscation or demolition and stop their ongoing Nakba, he noted. Following is the full Statement delivered by Minister Riad Malki at High-Level Segment of Forty-Ninth Regular Session of Human Rights Council: Every year, we meet in these halls and profess our states' commitment to the universality of human rights and to curbing all violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law. But the reality for millions of victims of egregious human rights violations continues to deteriorate, their right to justice continues to be denied, and the culture of impunity is further entrenched. This year, I invite all my colleagues to examine and remedy the reason behind this state of affairs, which can be summarized in two words: double standards. The truth is, respect for international law, including international human rights law and humanitarian law, is ensured selectively, not universally. In fact, this hall has borne witness to outrageous statements justifying violations of peremptory norms and violations amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, many committed against the Palestinian people. Accountability is sought vociferously when politically expedient and fought against with as much fervor when the culprit is politically favored. This is the bitter fact. Mr. President, The Palestinian people have long suffered the injustices and frustrations of these double standards, where Israel, the occupying Power, is granted an indefensible status of exceptional treatment that allows it to continue committing crimes with complete and abject impunity.

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