The international community must sanction Israel for the crime of apartheid and impose an arms embargo against it, the left-wing
Amnesty International said the international community must sanction the Zionist entity for the crime of apartheid and impose an arms embargo against it.
In a new 211-page report the group’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard described Israeli policies as cruel.
“We found that Israel’s cruel policies of segregation, dispossession and exclusion across all territories under its control clearly amount to apartheid,” Callamard stated.
“The international community has an obligation to act,” she emphasized.
“Governments who continue to supply Israel with arms and shield it from accountability at the UN are supporting a system of apartheid, undermining the international legal order, and exacerbating the suffering of the Palestinian people,” the watchdog’s S.G. explained.
Amnesty International is the fourth NGO to accuse THE Israeli regime of the crime of apartheid in the last two years.
It follows similar accusations by Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem. Yesh Din make a similar accusation but limited its charges to the West Bank.
The other reports spoke of Israeli actions of apartheid within areas of both Amnesty’s release of its report comes in advance of the 49th session the Human Rights Council in March, which is likely to debate a report about Israeli apartheid, and in advance of the first report of the permanent Commission of Inquiry against Israel which is similarly expected to level such an accusation.
The report also called on the International Criminal Court to add the charge of apartheid into its war crimes probe against Israel.
“Apartheid has no place in our world, and states which choose to make allowances for Israel will find themselves on the wrong side of history” Callamard said.
The report titled “Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and crime against humanity” accused Tel Aviv of perpetrating this crime since its inception in 1948 and throughout its subsequent history.
“Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has pursued a policy of establishing and maintaining a Jewish demographic hegemony and maximizing its control over land to benefit Jewish Israelis while restricting the rights of Palestinians and preventing Palestinian refugees from returning to their homes. In 1967, Israel extended this policy to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which it has occupied ever since,” Amnesty stated.
Source: Israeli media
