’’Israel’’ Boycotts UNHRC

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"Israeli" government isolated itself further from the international community on Monday as it announced it would cut all contacts with the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The "Israeli" move comes after the council adopted a resolution last week that condemned settlement construction in the West Bank and East al-Quds and its decision to send a fact-finding mission to investigate such "Israeli" aggressions.

The resolution was adopted by a decision in the 47-member council, with 36 votes in favor and 10 abstentions. Only the United States voted against it.
The "Israeli" foreign ministry announced Monday that "it would cut all contact with the body."

"There was a decision by the foreign ministry to sever work contacts with the organization," "Israeli" ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP, adding that ""Israel" had yet to formally inform the council of its decision."
He also added that "there won't be working relations with them, conversations, passing papers, making visits, exchanging information, consulting one another, attending meetings."

The Council's leader Laura Dupuy Lasserre said "the decision by "Israel" was most regrettable."
Lasserre said she "has not received official confirmation of "Israel's" decision, but if it is indeed the case, this would be most regrettable."
 

"Israeli" settlements are illegal under international law, but "Israel" has continued to expand its communities in the occupied territory.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) became the first UN body to recognize Palestine as a state last October, incurring the wrath of "Israel" and a funding cut from the US."

Omar Barghouti from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement said "the decision to boycott could prove to be the start of "Israel's" South Africa moment."
""Israel's" far-right government is so drunk with impunity that it often mistakenly perceives its made-in-the-US influence in the world today as an indicator of its inherent power and worth and acts accordingly, often with untenable and nauseating hubris," he said.


Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org