On October 18, 2016, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) held a briefing on the "human rights situation" in "Occupied Palestinian Territory." Three non-governmental organizations were invited to speak: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Al Haq.
The meeting lasted forty-five minutes, of which forty-four minutes were spent on the "human rights" of Palestinians and Israeli "crimes," and one minute was spent on abuses by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
The human rights organization, Amnesty International, was reduced to serving as a mouthpiece for terrorists; its spokesperson actually claimed that stones and firebombs do not threaten Israeli lives, making a response "unlawful." In his words:
"Over the past year...Amnesty International has documented a series of unlawful killings...Israeli forces killed Palestinians during the policing of protests in which stones and occasionally fire bombs were thrown, but these incidents do not appear to have threatened the lives of Israeli forces, making the killings unlawful."
October 18, 2016
Amnesty International Tells UN: Firebombs Don't Threaten Israeli Lives, So Response Unlawful
Seat of a 4-year old girl after an October 2015 firebomb attack on Israeli family.
Date
October 18, 2016
Title
CEIRPP “Briefing on the current human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the use of excessive force by Israeli security forces, and the need for accountability.”,
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