1/7 Adalah's Deputy General Director, Adv. Sawsan Zaher, addressed the @UN_HRC on behalf of Adalah today.
2/7 Adalah welcomes the decision of the @UN_HRC tonight to open an ongoing commission of inquiry (COI) that will examine, in-depth, the human rights violations committed by the State of Israel against Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line.
3/7 The mass killing of a civilian population in Gaza, along with the attack on worshippers in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and the imminent forced displacement and dispossession of Palestinian refugee families in Sheikh Jarrah
4/7 necessitate an independent and independent investigation. This decision marks the first time that the HRC has also given a mandate to a COI to examine the root causes of these violations, including those taking place within Israel against Palestinian citizens of the state.
5/7 The COI will also be required to consider the deep connection between the constitutional anchoring of Jewish supremacy in the Jewish Nation-State Basic Law, and the Israeli government's use of law enforcement agencies to oppress and use extensive force and violence
6/7 against Palestinian citizens of Israel, as well as the free hand it gives to far-right Jewish Israeli groups to attack them during the recent events.
7/7 This decision also follows on the call made on 14 May 2021 by the High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel for international intervention to protect the safety and human rights of the Palestinian community in Israel.
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