UN human rights move shows KSA’s ‘support for international consensus’ over Yemen

Arab News

October 1, 2017

Riyadh, Oct 1: The adoption of a draft Arab resolution by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) shows that Saudi Arabia is supporting “international consensus in Yemen,” the Kingdom’s ambassador to the war-torn country has said.

The UN on Friday agreed to establish a group of experts to examine human rights violations in Yemen’s war and to identify those responsible.

Several Arab states had presented a draft resolution over the issue, which was adopted by consensus without a vote, and which the Yemeni delegation said it accepted.

“The adoption of the Arab draft resolution by the UN Human Rights Council and the withdrawal of Netherlands’ draft resolution confirms that the Kingdom is continuously supporting international consensus in Yemen,” said Mohammed Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Yemen.

“By agreeing to support the Yemeni National Commission in investigating human rights violations in Yemen, Saudi Arabia reinforces its commitment to the international humanitarian law.

“The adoption of the Arab draft resolution confirms that the Kingdom is keen on ensuring victory for humanity in Yemen and in the world … The UNHRC’s decision is a result of the Kingdom’s tremendous efforts to persuade countries to provide the Yemeni National Commission’s investigation with international support.”

Al-Jaber also endorsed the efforts of the Yemeni National Commission in investigating human rights violations in Yemen. He stressed that the commission must continue to investigate allegations of violations until the legitimacy of the Yemeni government is fully restored. “This will ensure justice for countless victims of human rights violations,” he added.

Abdulmalik Abduljalil Al-Mekhlafi, Yemen’s deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, welcomed the UN Human Rights Council’s decision, which was announced on Friday in Geneva.

“We have accepted the Arab draft resolution … in order to maintain international consensus in the region,” Al-Mekhlafi said.

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Israel orders 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate eastern Rafah ahead of ground invasion

News Network

May 6,2024

The Israeli regime is forcibly evacuating Palestinians from the eastern part of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip amid the prospect of its widely-discouraged ground invasion.

“The estimate is around 100,000 people,” an Israeli military spokesman told journalists on Monday when asked how many people were being evacuated.

International organizations, including the United Nations, have repeatedly warned the regime against invading the city, citing its hosting around 1.5 million Palestinian refugees.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a ground assault on Rafah would “put the final nail in the coffin” for humanitarian aid operations in the Gaza Strip.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs also said, “Any ground operation would mean more suffering and death,” with an official saying “It could be a slaughter of civilians.”

Multiple aid agencies, including the Norwegian Refugee Council, have likewise warned against a Rafah offensive.

The NRC said such an invasion “would profoundly exacerbate the already catastrophic levels of need and the humanitarian emergency for millions of civilians with nowhere left to go.”

The official alleged Hamas had killed three Israeli forces on Sunday, attacking them from Rafah.

The evacuation order came a sat least 22 people lost their lives in the regime’s airstrikes killed in Rafah earlier on Monday.

Rafah’s evacuation “is part of our plans to dismantle Hamas,” the Israeli spokesman added, referring to the Palestinian resistance movement that has been defending Gaza in the face of the war.

The Palestinians have fled there from the ravages of a war that the regime began waging against Gaza on October 7, following a retaliatory operation by the coastal sliver’s resistance groups.

At least 34,683 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and 78,018 others injured so far during the brutal military onslaught.

On Friday, Hossam Badran, a member of Hamas’ Political Bureau, said Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on carrying out a ground invasion of Rafah was a key stumbling block in negotiations aimed at a truce agreement.

The Israeli premier has said the regime would go ahead with invading the city “with or without” a truce.

Hamas has, however, asserted that the regime has failed to defeat the resistance during the war.

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