PLO welcomes UN report on human rights situation in Palestine July 18, 2020

PLO welcomes UN report on human rights situation in Palestine July 18, 2020

ISLAMABAD-The Executive Committee of Palestine Liberation Organization has welcomed an official United Nations report on situation of human rights in Palestinian territories.

In a statement, member of the PLO committee, Ahmed al-Tamimi, said, the UN report is a document added to the resolutions and international laws related to the just Palestinian cause. 

Earlier, Michael Link, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories called on Israel in a special report to immediately stop all actions of "collective punishment" in Palestine.

The report focused on the Israeli occupation's crimes committed against the Palestinian people, mainly collective punishment, siege and homes destruction that violate international human rights law.