Kuwait calls for enquiry mechanism into Israel's human rights violations

A Kuwaiti official said in Geneva on Monday that Kuwait supported the establishment of an enquiry mechanism to probe Israel's violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, the official Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported.

First secretary of the Kuwaiti mission to the United Nations Najeeb al-Bader told the Human Rights Council that such Israeli violations were explicitly expressed in a recent report by UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories John Dugard over the situation on the Palestinian land, according to the report.

He said that Kuwait attached great importance to respecting international law and human rights law under all conditions and circumstances.

Al-Bader also called on the Council to take measures "to stop the continuous Israeli violations" in the Palestinian territories and other lands occupied by Israel.

"The only solution (to the Israeli violations) is to put an end to Israel's occupation of Arab lands and to allow Palestinians to exercise their legitimate right of self determination and to establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital," he concluded.

Last week, Dugard presented his latest report, which said that the situation in the Palestinian territories had substantially deteriorated since the West's cutoff of aid and Israel's freezing of tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinians.

Source: Xinhua