Human Rights Experts On Israel-Palestine To Step Down From UN-Backed Team

GENEVA (AP) – A team of three independent experts working for the best human rights organ of the UN, which focuses on Israel and Palestinian regions, says that the panel resigned in the first group resignation and shows the need for personal reasons and change.

On Monday, the resignation announced by the UN -backed Human Rights Council for the establishment of the team and violence against the Israeli military campaign against Hamas and other militants behind the October 7 attacks in the Palestinian regions.

The Israeli government has repeatedly criticized the panel of experts known as the Investigation Commission in the Palestinian region and Israel in Israel, and rejected the demands of traveling to the region or cooperating with the team.

Council spokesman Pascal Sim said that since the movement was founded in 2006, the first joint resignation of the members of the investigation. The team explained that their resignations have “absolutely nothing to do with any external incident or pressure”, and they provided a good opportunity for the reconstruction of the panel.

83 -year -old Navi Pillay, a former UN Human Rights Chief who has led the commission for the last four years, said in a letter to the chairman of the council that he entered into force on 3 November because of “Age, medical problems and a few other commitments”.

In an interview, Pillay rejected the charges of critics who accused him of anti -Semitism or who turned a blind eye to Hamas attacks. He remembered how he worked closely with some Jewish lawyers in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa in South Africa and was invited to Israel as the UN Rights Chief from 2008 to 2014.

“The call call does not affect me in any way,” he said. “We tried to remain independent. We are this. We are an independent panel. We do not look at his side … We look at the evidence and see the direction he took us.”

“People who accuse us of being anti -Jewish … They bend the facts, invented the facts, they falsify the facts. I want to challenge the report: Which of the facts we have determined is wrong?” he said.

Three days later, three days later, he condemned a newsletter in a newsletter that states that hundreds of unarmed civilians from Gaza were shot and cannot be tolerated.

He said that Israel regrets that the commission did not allow access to Israel or Palestinian regions, “I feel an injustice for the Israeli Jews because they said their views or their words”.

Pillay said that the number of low platelets has recently been diagnosed and its condition has limited its ability to travel.

The team, the chairman of the Council of Rights – said he wanted to give the ability to choose new members of the Swiss Ambassador Jürg Lauber.

Team member Chris Sidoti said Pillay’s retirement was a timely time to javelin again the commission ”. Third member, Miloon KothariHe did not give the reasons in a letter that announced an effective 0CT to resign. 31.

Neither independent experts nor Council countries have no power, but aims to abuse and collect information about suspicious perpetrators that can be used by the International Criminal Court or other courts focusing on international justice.

The letters were sent to the chairman of the council last week, but only on Monday.

US government announced last week Francesca Albania, which is sanctions against another independent expert assigned by the CouncilFocusing on Israel and Palestinians. Albania accused Israel’s rejection of Israel for genocide against the Palestinians.

Albanian, last week in an interview with Associated Press, he said. Shocked by the US decision. Did not resign.