World Should Stop Israel’s Law Defiance

The Islamic Republic of Iran called on the international community to help restrain Israel’s ‘absolute impunity and defiance of the law’ particularly in dealing with Palestinians.

Iran made the call as the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) convened in Geneva for a second day to focus on the Goldstone Gaza report on Friday morning.

The UN-ordered Goldstone report on Israel’s offensive in Gaza details what investigators call Israeli actions “amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity.”

The Iranian representative at UNHRC called for “an end to the persistent situation of absolute impunity and defiance of the law,” press tv reported.

“In fact, the international community anxiously is waiting to see how the Human Rights Council as the main human rights body of the United Nations is dealing with such an important and well-documented report in fulfilling its mandate and responsibilities to promote and protect Human Rights.”

“We also attach high importance to the first periodic report on the High Commissioner for Human Rights which covers some of the realities in the occupied Palestine, particularly during the recent brutal aggregation against the Gaza Strip and the severe siege imposed on more than 1,500,000 Palestinians in the occupied Gaza which need to be lifted immediately,” the Iranian official said.

“Furthermore, my country strongly condemns recently intensified, illegal policies and measures taken in occupied Palestine including ongoing settlement activities and forced demolition of houses as well as the efforts to change the demographic and geographical character of the holy city( Al-Quds) and continued digging and excavation works and activities in and around Al-Aqsa Mosque and its vicinity.”

“Finally, I would like to reiterate once again that the root cause of all these violations lies within the occupation itself and as far as this fundamental problem is not resolved, nothing can ensure that the gross violation of Human Rights at this level be stopped,” the Iranian envoy concluded.

The 575-page report by Goldstone and three other investigators asserts seven incidents in which Palestinian civilians were shot while leaving their homes, trying to run for safety or waving white flags.

Tel Aviv has been lobbying world leaders to prevent advancement of the report, which can, for the first time, lead to the trail of several Israeli civilian and military officials.

At least 1,500 Palestinians lost their lives during three weeks of Israel’s land, sea and air assault in the impoverished coastal sliver. The offensive also inflicted $ 1.6 billion damage to Gaza economy.