Israel's "shoot to kill"Policy in Palestine condemned
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MIRPUR: (APP) Expressing serious concern over the stepped-up human rights violations in Palestine leader of Kashmiri delegation and the veteran rights activist Altaf Hussain Wani has said that the Israeli forces continue to disregard Palestinians' right to life through a shoot-to-kill policy.
"Extrajudicial killings by Israeli forces in Palestine have become symbolic of its disregard for international law and the culture of impunity surrounding these breaches", Wani also Vice Chairman of Jammu Kashmir National Front said while discussing rights situation in Palestine debated under agenda item 7 during 32nd session of United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, said a message released to the media here Monday.
"Israel has escalated its human rights violations against Palestinians through collective punishment measures and excessive use of force", he said adding that since March 2016, 182 Palestinians, including 44 children, were killed by Israeli forces and settlers since October 2015. "While many of these cases appear to amount to unlawful and extrajudicial killings, very few of them have been investigated," he said.
Terming it as a flagrant violation of international law the National Front leader pointed out that the Israeli authorities have reinstated the practice of holding bodies of those killed as a mean of punishing their families.
Referring to Amnesty International report he said that the report had revealed that there were several incidents where Palestinians were deliberately shot by Israeli. "In some cases, the victims are left bleeding to death and are not given timely medical assistance", he said.
Urging UNHCR to take effective notice of what he called the Israel's naked aggression against Palestinian people he said, "Israel's continued failure to carry out impartial and transparent investigations into the killings of Palestinians, requires effective protection measures from the international community". Wani observed that international protection forces and independent committee to investigate these extrajudicial killings were urgently needed to bring an end to this culture of impunity, he added.
