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Day: January 18, 2024
The European Union has welcomed the observations of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights following her visit to Armenia and Azerbaijan in October 2023. This visit was the first human rights mission in decades in the region and long overdue. Her report confirms the need for further, regular and unhindered access to Nagorno Karabakh by international bodies and actors.
“The observations of the Commissioner echo some of the concerns expressed before by the European Union on the extremely difficult situation arising from the mass exodus of Karabakh Armenians following Azerbaijan’s military operation on 19 and 20 September and the nine month blockade of the Lachin corridor. Nearly the entire population of Karabakh Armenians have found refuge in Armenia,” the EU Delegation to the Council of Europe said in a statement at the 1486th meeting of the Committee of Ministers.
The EU emphasized the importance of ensuring the rights and security of Karabakh Armenians and to create the conditions for the voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable return of refugees and displaced persons to Karabakh. In addition, it said, the cultural and religious heritage and property rights of the local population need to be effectively protected and guaranteed.
The European Union welcomed the joint statement by Armenia and Azerbaijan announcing the mutual release of detainees and confidence-building measures and reconfirming the intention to conclude a peace treaty on the basis of respect for the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity, describing it as “an important political step.”
“We call on Armenia and Azerbaijan to endorse the observations and implement the recommendations made by the Commissioner and to use them as a human rights roadmap during the process of building reconciliation and lasting peace for all people affected by the conflict. The EU remains committed to facilitating dialogue between both sides in order to ensure a comprehensive and sustainable peace for the benefit of all people in the region,” the Delegation said.
Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for “encouraging” Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, saying the regime’s occupation of the besieged enclave is the only way to restore security to Israel.
Ben-Gvir made the remarks during an interview with Israel’s Channel 13 news on Wednesday, weeks after he called for the displacement of the people of Gaza and reoccupation of the besieged territory to build new Israeli settlements.
“There is no other way to restore security to Israel other than a full occupation of the Palestinian territory,” he said, adding, “Voluntary immigration of the residents of Gaza should be encouraged.”
He further criticized the Israeli cabinet for not properly supporting Israeli forces that he claimed are doing an “excellent job” in the ongoing war in Gaza.
“I hope that Likud elements do not set us back in terms of achievements,” he said of the war.
In recent months, several Israeli officials have called for the occupation of Gaza as well as genocide against the Palestinian people.
Earlier this month, Amichai Eliyahu said the residents of Gaza should be left with no option but to immigrate to other countries as part of revenge measures against them in the wake of the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm operation.
Back in November, Eliyahu called for dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza.
Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has also called for encouraging the “emigration” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in order for extremist settlers to return to the area after the war.
The United Nations has already said it’s “deeply alarmed” by statements from Israeli leaders about the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.
According to the UN, 85% of the population of Gaza is already internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine.
Most Palestinians displaced from their homeland after the Nakba (Catastrophe), when Israel proclaimed its illegal existence on May 15, 1948, have ended up in neighboring Arab states.
Arab leaders have maintained that any latter-day move aimed at forced expulsion of the Palestinians would be absolutely unacceptable.
800,000 Palestinians experiencing real famine
Meanwhile, a senior official of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has noted that 800,000 Palestinians are experiencing a real famine due to Israel’s devastating war and prevention of the entry of necessary supplies into Gaza.
Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s representative in Lebanon and a member of the group’s politburo, made the remarks a day after UN experts warned that “every single person” in the war-torn Gaza is facing hunger amid Israel’s war and blockade against the territory.
He also noted that the medicines that the resistance group is providing to the captives are running out due to the Israeli blockade and aggression, stressing that any initiative to bring medicines to the captives must include bringing medicines to the Palestinians in Gaza.
Hamdan also reiterated that the prerequisite for any prisoner exchange deal is the complete cessation of aggression on Gaza.
The Israeli regime waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s atrocities against Palestinians.
Since the start of the aggression, Israel has killed more than 24,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The Tel Aviv regime has also imposed a “complete siege” on the territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
Reading this, I think back to the 2010 Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh assassination in Dubai by Mossad agents- stolen identities, and surveillance footage added intrigue to the covert operation. #mossad #Assassination #Israel https://t.co/18srqXCrCW
— Robert Morton (@Robert4787) January 17, 2024