Amnesty International has condemned Israel’s plan to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank and called for international action against it.
In Twitter remarks Amnesty urged the international community to hold Israel accountable for its violations against the Palestinians and not to make do with words of condemnation.
The human rights group emphasized that criticizing Israel without bringing it to account would not end Israel’s injustice and impunity.
It cited a recent warning made by international experts appointed by the UN that the annexation plan would intensify human rights violations committed against the Palestinians during five decades of Israeli occupation.
In their statement about 50 independent human rights experts — appointed by the UN Human Rights Council — have called on the international community to oppose Israel’s intent to announce the annexation of significant parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank in early July.
The experts described Israel’s annexation of occupied Palestinian territory as “a serious violation of the Charter of the United Nations and the Geneva Conventions and contrary to the fundamental rule affirmed many times by the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly that the acquisition of territory by war or force is inadmissible.”
“The international community has prohibited annexation precisely because it incites wars economic devastation political instability systematic human rights abuses and widespread human suffering.”
“What would be left of the West Bank would be a Palestinian Bantustan islands of disconnected land completely surrounded by Israel and with no territorial connection to the outside world” the statement continued.
