国際人権NGOヒューマンライツ・ナウは、2021年7月9日、第47回人権理事会にてパレスチナに関する口頭声明を発表しました。
本声明では、イスラエル軍によるパレスチナの民間人に対する暴力とハマスによる無差別なロケット攻撃を、どちらも「武力の行使において民間人の生命と財産を保護していないという悲劇的な無責任さを表している」と非難。
さらに、イスラエル政府に対し、パレスチナ人の差別的扱いと強奪、および人道援助の阻止を終わらせ、停戦の条件を遵守するよう求めました。
以下のリンクから口頭声明のビデオをご覧いただけます：
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k15/k15ve4kouf?kalturaStartTime=28547
声明のスクリプトはこちらからダウンロードいただけます（PDF）:
https://hrn.or.jp/eng/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/HRN_HRC47_OS_on_OPT_Transcript.pdf
（以下、スクリプト全文）
12 July 2021
Human Rights Council 47th Session
Item 7: ID with SR on Occupied Palestinian Territory
Speaker: Saul TAKAHASHI
Transcript of Oral Statement on Occupied Palestinian Territory
Madam President,
May saw eleven days of large scale Israeli military operations against Gaza and scores of arrests targeting Palestinians in a discriminatory manner. At the root of the violence is a pattern of systemic discrimination against Palestinians, including forced displacement, apartheid conditions, discriminatory laws, widespread poverty and hunger, a water supply crisis, and an Israeli blockade that has led to a collapse in infrastructure and blocked access to vital goods.
Disproportionate use of force and air strikes in civilian territory by the Israeli government led to 227 deaths, including 64 children, and Hamas’s indiscriminate firing of rockets also led to the death of 12, including 2 children. Both series of attacks on populated areas, leading to foreseeable civilian casualties, appear to be war crimes and violate international humanitarian law, and display tragic irresponsibility in failing to protect civilian lives and property in their use of force.
Human Rights Now calls on the Israeli government to end the discriminatory treatment and dispossession of Palestinians and its blocking of humanitarian aid. We also call on Hamas to prevent indiscriminate rocket attacks.
We finally call on both the Israeli government and Hamas to respect the terms of the ceasefire and for all parties to work towards creating a lasting peace based on justice.
Thank you.
