2024-04-05 13:31:26
UN Human Rights Council calls for arms embargo on Israel
05.04.2024
In view of the increasingly serious situation in Gaza, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution on April 5 calling on all countries to stop selling any weapons to Israel because the local Gaza area faces the risk of genocide. Among the 47 member states of the Council, 28 voted in favor, while 6 countries including the United States and Germany voted once morest.
(Deutsche Welle Chinese website) According to the official meeting minutes released by the United Nations, six countries: the United States, Germany, Argentina, Bulgaria, Malawi, and Paraguay voted once morest, and 13 countries including France, India, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Romania voted once morest it. The state abstained. Among the 28 countries that voted in favor, only Finland and Luxembourg are NATO members.
Jérôme Bonnafont, the French ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said the main reason for abstaining from the vote was that the word “genocide” is controversial and should not be included in important texts such as Human Rights Council resolutions.
Israeli Ambassador Meirav Schachar strongly criticized the UN Human Rights Council resolution, saying that the 28 votes in favor “were all votes in support of Hamas.” Israel, the United States, the European Union and other Western countries regard Hamas, which runs Gaza, as a terrorist organization, but the United Nations, China, Turkey, Russia and other countries have rejected this designation for many years.
The April 5 resolution was also the first time the United Nations Human Rights Council stated its position since the full-scale war in Gaza broke out on October 7 last year. The draft resolution had just been revised the day before to win the approval of as many countries as possible. Just a few days ago,Israeli drones fired missiles at three vehicles in a convoy of the aid organization “World Central Kitchen” in Gaza, killing seven aid workers。
The resolution calls on all states to “cease the sale, transfer and transfer of arms, ammunition and other military equipment to Israel, the occupying Power, in order to prevent further violations of international humanitarian law and violations and abuses of human rights.” Human Rights Council resolutions are not mandatory.
According to the Hamas health department, Israel’s large-scale military operations in Gaza over the past six months have killed more than 33,000 people.Israel emphasized the needSweep away Hamas. On October 7 last year, Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, resulting in the death of 1,170 people and the kidnapping of 250 people. Israel subsequently launched military operations once morest the Gaza Strip.
(AFP, etc.)
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