The director of the New York office of the UN high commissioner for human rights has resigned from his post protesting that the UN is “failing in its duty to prevent the genocide of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”
Craig Mokhiber wrote on October 28 to the UN high commissioner in Geneva Volker Turk saying: “This will be my last communication to you” in his role in New York.
Mokhiber wrote: “Once again we are seeing a genocide unfold before our eyes and the organization we serve appears powerless to stop it.”
He said that the UN had failed to prevent previous genocides against the Tutsis in Rwanda Muslims in Bosnia the Yazidi in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Rohingya in Myanmar and wrote: “High Commissioner we are failing again.”
“The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people rooted in an ethnonationalism colonial settler ideology in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging based entirely upon their status as Arabs leaves no room for doubt.”
Mokhiber added: “This is a text book case of genocide” and said the US UK and much of Europe were not only “refusing to meet their treaty obligations” under the Geneva Conventions but were also arming Israel’s assault and providing political and diplomatic cover for it.
Commenting on the move the Hamas Movement said that the UN official’s resignation exposes the international community’s complicity in the genocide against the people of Gaza.
“Mr. Craig Mukhiber’s resignation confirms the extent of those forces’ and nations’ shameful complicity with the Israeli massacres against our people and its egregious violations of all international norms and conventions” Hamas said.
