Qatar has reiterated its firm continued position in support of the Palestinian people in their struggle to obtain their legitimate rights, and most importantly their right to self-determination and establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
This came in a speech delivered yesterday by ambassador Faisal bin Abdullah al-Henzab, Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations and other international organisations office in Geneva at the 32nd Human Rights Council session, item (7) under the general debate titled the human rights situation in Palestine and in the other occupied Arab territories.
Ambassador al-Henzab stressed the importance of documenting violations and crimes committed by Israel, the occupying power, against the Palestinian people, and to shed light on them, in order to reflect the daily suffering of the Palestinians under the brutal occupation under which they have been for more than 68 years.
He added that the continuation of Israeli settlement expansion, forced evictions, house demolitions, land confiscation, the construction of the apartheid wall, and subjecting Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including women and children to torture and killing, and the continuation of retaliation policies and collective punishment, and the increasing attacks by Israeli settlers on the lives and property of the Palestinian people, and violation of the sanctity of the Aqsa mosque and attacks on worshippers constitute serious violations of international human rights law.
He said such policies make the election of Israel recently to the presidency of the legal Committee of the General Assembly unacceptable given the disgraceful record of its crimes and violations and non-compliance with  laws and treaties and UN resolutions.
He also said it was regrettable that the international community has failed to put an end to Israel’s manipulation of legitimacy and international efforts to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue, stressing that the time has come for the international community to shoulder its full responsibility towards ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Arab lands, and to force Israel to comply with their obligations under international law.
“Israel must understand that the continuation of racial policies and practices that not believing in peace, ending the occupation, and seeking to spread terror and instability in the region would not break the will and steadfastness of the Palestinian people against the occupation and their struggle to regain all their legitimate rights, al-Henzab said, adding that such policies would further contribute to failure of the two-state solution and undermine all peace efforts.