Israel follows us in boycotting the UN Human Right Council | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
The organization spokesman says the status of an observer of the Israeli observer means that he cannot formally withdraw from the body.
Israel says “will not participate” in the Council of Human Rights of the United Nations (UNHRC), following steps United Stateswhich announced the withdrawal earlier this week.
In response to the announcement of the Israeli Foreign Minister Thursday, the UNHRC spokesman Pascal Sim said that Israel was the state status of observer within the body for the rights and could not withdraw from the Council.
The Geneva headquarters are consisting of 47 UN Member States, elected by other UN members for a rotating basis. The US is also not elected member of the Council.
On Thursday Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused UNHRC of anti -Semitism and said his country “joined the United States and will not participate in the UNHRC.”
Saar added that the decision was “made in the light of current and relentless institutional bias towards Israel at the Human Rights Council, which has been permanent since its founding in 2006”.
Previously, the Israeli Ambassador UN, Danny Danon, accused the body of “moral failure”.
Francesca Albanese, a special UN reporter on occupied Palestinian territory, said the decision of Israel is “extremely serious” and “shows Hubris and the lack of realization of what they do [Israel] they did. ”
“They insist on self -comprehensiveness that they have nothing responsible, and they prove that to the whole international community,” she added.
UNHRC conducts periodic examinations of records of the Human Rights of the UN Member States, and is also responsible for the appointment of human rights experts who will serve as an independent UN special reporters.
Israel has participated in the periodic examinations that UN members have to handle the UNHRC. For several years, however, he boycotted discussions about “the situation with human rights in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.”
The decision on Thursday by Israel is the latest in a row confrontation He had with the UN.
In October, Israel forbidden the UN’s UN Agency for help and work for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), which caused a wide international conviction.
