The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Affairs called on the High Contracting Parties to the four Geneva Conventions to take responsibility and take serious action to implement the Fourth Geneva Convention and previous declarations of the Conferences of the States Parties in Occupied Palestine. territory.
In an urgent message to the participating States, the Foreign Office reaffirmed its absolute rejection of attempts to justify the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, calling for an end to Israel’s exception to its obligations under international law.
The High Contracting Parties to the four Geneva Conventions called on Israel, the occupying Power, to bear full responsibility for its crimes against the Palestinian people, including its responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by them, emphasizing that without this, security and stability cannot be achieved.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the High Contracting Parties to provide international protection to the Palestinian people and work to end their suffering by ending the colonial Israeli occupation that has been established on the soil of the State of Palestine against all legal, moral and humanitarian principles, and demanded put an end to the ongoing injustice that has denied generations of Palestinians the enjoyment of their fundamental rights, including their right to self-determination.
She stressed that the selective application of international law, including international human rights law, was unacceptable, and that the Palestinian people continued to be marginalized by the lack of justice under more than 50 years of military occupation.
She stressed that the Palestinian people cannot be left at the mercy of a military occupation that embodies all manifestations of violence, oppression and apartheid, calling for the application of all the rights and guarantees guaranteed under international law that are granted to all other peoples. on the Palestinian people.
