NAM expresses concern over Israel’s acts of violence

TEHRAN,Nov.12(MNA) – In a statement read out at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Friday, Iran and other members of the Non-Aligned Movement expressed their concern over Israel’s acts of violence. The statement was read out by the Iranian deputy ambassador to the UN, Es’haq Ale-Habib, on behalf of the NAM member states, before a meeting of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee on Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories. Iran assumed the rotating presidency of NAM for a three-year term on August 30. Following are excerpts of the text of Ale-Habib’s speech: According to the latest report of the special committee, the systematic violations of human rights of the Palestinian people and the other Arab peoples of the occupied territories, during the current period, have continued and in many ways intensified. The Non-Aligned Movement is seriously concerned about the finding of the report, especially regarding the “the mass imprisonment of Palestinians and administrative detention, routine demolition of homes, and resultant displacement of Palestinians, intensification of illegal Israel’s settlement activities, blockade on Gaza, widespread violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, and lack of effort to prevent or hold settlers accountable for such violence”. In this respect, NAM calls for the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the special committee in order to ensure the applicability and respect of international human rights and international humanitarian law by Israel, the occupying power, and to end its impunity in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and all other Arab territories it continues to occupy since 1967. NAM condemns Israel’s continuing unlawful campaign of arrest, detention, and forced interrogation of thousands of Palestinian civilians, including children, women, and numerous elected officials, who continue to be held under harsh, inhumane conditions, and to be subjected to physical and mental ill-treatment. In this regard, Israel’s use of torture and all other forms of physical and psychological mistreatment and deprivation of Palestinian prisoners, including denial of family visits, denial of access to education and adequate medical care, use of administrative detention, and the inhumane use of solitary confinement remain a source of grave concern. The movement reaffirms its unwavering commitment to a just and comprehensive solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the question of Palestine at its core, and to the immediate restoration of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to exercise its self-determination and sovereignty in its independent state of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital.