The concept note for the meeting includes the following:
- It accuses Israel of "war crimes" while ignoring context of Israel acting to defend itself from Palestinian attacks: "For nearly 50 years ... the Palestinian civilian population has endured systematic human rights violations, and even war crimes, by the occupying power..."
- It refers to Israeli military operations in Gaza without mentioning that Israel was responding to thousands of Hamas rocket attacks against Israel: "Israeli military operations against the Gaza Strip in July-August 2014, November 2012 and December 2008-January 2009 and the vast human and physical devastation caused..."
- It accuses Israel of deliberately targeting civilians, while ignoring the fact that Hamas embedded itself within civilian populations in order to use them as human shields: "In 2014, Israeli assaults, including deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, killed over 2,200 Palestinians and injured more than 11,000 people."
- It condemns current Israeli security measures while ignoring the hundreds of Palestinian stabbing, shooting, and car ramming attacks against Israelis since September 2015: "[T]he occupying Power is the direct and constant source of their suffering and hardship... It is also evidenced in the context of ongoing, violent Israeli military raids in cities, towns, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the consequent killing and injury of civilians, including children and youth, several extra-judicially executed; rising Israeli settler violence and terror against Palestinian civilians..."
