RAMALLAH, June 16, 2026 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on Tuesday welcomed the report issued by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, which was submitted to the Human Rights Council during its current session in Geneva.
The ministry described the report as a highly significant United Nations document that provides comprehensive documentation and legal analysis of the grave and systematic violations and crimes committed by the Israeli occupation authorities and colonists' militias against all segments of the Palestinian people, without discrimination.
The ministry said it attaches great importance to the commission’s conclusion that colonists' terror constitutes an integral part of the colonial settler occupation system and is not merely a series of isolated individual acts, stressing that these practices are directly aimed at the forcible displacement of the Palestinian people, the seizure of their land and property, and the undermining of their inalienable right to self-determination.
The ministry said the report also confirms the continuation of systematic impunity and the failure of the occupation authorities to hold perpetrators accountable for crimes and violations committed against the Palestinian people, reflecting, according to the ministry, a deeply entrenched structural flaw in the occupation government's so-called justice and law enforcement system.
The ministry further emphasized that the report’s findings regarding the crimes and violations committed against the Palestinian people—documented in numerous reports issued by United Nations bodies and mechanisms and including genocide, persecution, forcible displacement, and crimes against humanity—require urgent and effective international action to ensure international protection for the Palestinian people and hold accountable all those responsible for committing and inciting such crimes, whether within the occupation government, the military establishment, or among members of the so-called Israeli Knesset, all of whom it considered instruments of the Israeli occupation.
The ministry commended the report, as a legal reference, for its clear recommendations calling on the Israeli occupation government to end its illegal occupation of the occupied Palestinian Territory, completely cease colonial settlement activity, dismantle settlement outposts, provide protection to the Palestinian people from colonists' terror, and ensure accountability for crimes and violations committed against them.
The ministry said it also welcomed the commission’s call on member states to comply with their international legal obligations, cooperate with international courts, and refrain from providing any form of support or assistance that contributes to the continuation of the Israeli occupation and illegal settlement activity or that fuels violations of international law. This includes adopting the necessary measures to halt colonial settlement activity, boycotting the occupation government and its officials, holding perpetrators of international crimes accountable, and stopping the supply of tools and weapons that enable the occupation to continue its grave violations against the Palestinian people.
The ministry said it also welcomed the commission’s call on the United Nations and its competent bodies to continue monitoring, investigation, and documentation efforts, ensure the implementation of the commission’s recommendations and relevant international accountability mechanisms, and provide international protection to the Palestinian people until the end of the Israeli occupation and the realization of their inalienable right to self-determination, independence, and freedom.
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