Today, Saturday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed the position paper issued by the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel.

The Ministry considered that this position, which was issued by an impartial UN investigation committee, falls within the framework of many international reports, positions and recommendations that document and confirm the gravity of Israeli violations and crimes against the Palestinian people, which often do not find a listening ear from the occupying state and deal with them with great disdain and do not pay them any attention. It is also conclusive evidence of the illegitimacy of the occupation, and that the international failure to adopt these positions and reports encourages the occupying state to continue with impunity and commit more crimes and violations, and undermines what remains of the credibility of the international system and its legitimacy based on international law.

It is noteworthy that the committee confirmed yesterday the gravity of the Israeli violations against the Palestinian people, especially their right to self-determination, by perpetuating its long-term occupation, settlement, and annexation of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, in which it also held the occupying state responsible for the legal consequences of its violations.

It stressed the illegitimacy and legality of the Israeli occupation, and that Israeli violations require legal consequences. The committee called on the occupying state to put an end to them. It also called on all countries and the United Nations to take urgent action to force the occupying state to stop its violations.