RAMALLAH, November 27, 2025 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed the decision by the President of the Human Rights Council to reconstitute the Independent International Commission of Inquiry to investigate gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. The decision is based on Human Rights Council Resolution S-30/1 of May 27, 2021, which stipulated the establishment of an independent, ongoing international commission of inquiry to investigate all Israeli violations and crimes committed, and all root causes of the prolongation of the conflict since April 21, 2021.
The State of Palestine affirmed its full support for the commission in its new form, chaired by Srinivasan Muralidhar (India), with Florence Mumba (Zambia) and Chris Sidoti (Australia) as members. It also praised the previous commission, whose members retired and resigned, for their central role in monitoring, documenting, and investigating Israeli violations and crimes in line with international standards and international law, contributing to the uncovering of facts and strengthening the international path toward legal accountability to end the policy of impunity and identify the appropriate means to do so.
It said the decision embodies the international community’s commitment to ensuring independent international oversight of the grave violations and crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces, and reflects the urgent need for effective mechanisms to protect Palestinian civilians and enforce the rules of international law.
The State of Palestine pointed out that the commission’s mandate includes monitoring and reporting on colonists’ terror, the transfer of weapons to Israel, the occupying power, and the impact of this on the rights of the Palestinian people, as well as identifying avenues for confrontation and accountability—underscoring the importance of sustaining this international mechanism amid the escalating violations and crimes by the Israeli occupation forces and colonist gangs.
The State of Palestine affirmed that this renewal reflects the international community’s recognition of the gravity of the escalating violations and the imperative of sustained international investigation and accountability, thereby ensuring the continuation and completion of the legal course initiated by the previous commission. It said the commission’s renewed work forms part of broader international efforts to safeguard the Palestinian people and human rights, advance accountability, and bring an end to repeated Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people.
It also stressed the necessity of enabling the commission to enter the State of Palestine, access facts without restriction, and be provided with the resources required to carry out its mandate effectively and independently.
The State of Palestine emphasized that adherence to international law and the principles of accountability is the only way to safeguard human rights and achieve justice, and that the continued work of fact-finding commissions until the end of the Israeli occupation is a pivotal step in confronting systematic Israeli violations and ending the injustice imposed on the Palestinian people.
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