Geneva, March 24 (QNA) - The State of Qatar affirmed that the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 regarding arbitrary arrests, torture, and inhuman treatment perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people through detention centers and ongoing campaigns of mass killing, forced displacement, deprivation and destruction of the foundations of life, has become a structural feature of the ongoing Israeli genocide and the broader settler-colonial apartheid regime, stressing that it is a grave violation of international law, a war crime and a stain on humanity.

This came in the statement delivered by HE Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Office in Geneva Dr. Hend bint Abdalrahman Al Muftah during the interactive dialogue with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Item 7, within the framework of the 61st session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Her Excellency said that these heinous crimes against children, the elderly, people with disabilities, and women, and the methods of torture used, including starvation, beatings, insults, death threats, assault, cruel and inhuman treatment, denial of health care, and obstruction of legal assistance, cannot be ignored or tolerated by the international community. It is imperative to ensure that all those responsible for these crimes and violations committed against the brotherly Palestinian people are held accountable.

HE Dr. Al Muftah stressed that what the Israeli occupation aims for in terms of physically humiliating the Palestinians, destroying their psychological well-being, and undermining their ability to collectively resist, has not and will not succeed. She added that the Palestinians will continue their resistance to the occupation until they regain all their legitimate rights, foremost among them the right to self-determination and the establishment of their fully sovereign independent state on the borders of June 4, 1967.

Her Excellency thanked HE United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her report, which expressed condemnation of the Israeli authorities’ refusal to allow her access to the occupied Palestinian territories. (QNA)