A senior United Nations human rights official has resigned in protest of the organisation’s handling over the situation in #Gaza, were he said “a genocide [is] unfolding before our eyes”.
Craig Mokhiber, the director of the New York office of high commissioner for human rights, wrote in his resignation letter that it had become “painfully clear” that the #UN had failed in its duty “to meet the imperatives of prevention of mass atrocities, of protection of the vulenreable, and of accountability for perpetrators”. He said:
The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist settler colonial ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as #Arabs … leaves no room for doubt or debate… Across the land, Apartheid rules.
The situation in Gaza “is a text-book case of genocide,” he continued, with the aim of the “expedited destruction of the last remannts of indigeous #Palestinian life in Palestine”. He added:
What’s more, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and much of Europe, are wholly complicit in the horrific assault. #IsraelWarCrimes
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