“The situation in the occupied #Gaza Strip is critical for the civilians living there and requires your urgent attention,” UN #HumanRights Chief Navi Pillay said to the UN Human Rights Council special session on the Human Rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. “This is the third serious escalation of hostilities in my six years as High Commissioner. As we saw during the two previous crises in 2009 and 2012, it is innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip, including children, women, the elderly and persons with disabilities, who are suffering the most,” she added. “All these dead and maimed civilians should weigh heavily on all our consciences. I know that they weigh heavily on mine. All our efforts to protect them have been abject failures. More powerful entities, such as the Security Council, and individual States with serious leverage over the parties to this dreadful and interminable conflict, must do far more than they have done so far to bring this conflict to an end once and for all,” Pillay concluded.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:26:55 +0000
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