UN Human Rights Council on Israeli Crimes

Text of resolution issued today in Geneva:

The Council strongly condemns the ongoing Israeli military operation carried out in the Occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, which have resulted in massive violation of human rights of the Palestinian people and systematic destruction of the Palestinian infrastructure.

It calls for the immediate cessation of Israeli military attacks throughout the Palestinian Occupied Territory;

Demands the occupying power, Israel, to immediately withdraw its military forces from the occupied Gaza Strip;

Calls upon the occupying power to end its occupation to all Palestinian lands occupied since 1967, and to respect its commitment within the peace process towards the establishment of the independent sovereign Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital;

Demands the occupying power stop the targeting of civilians and medical facilities and staff as well as the systematic destruction of cultural heritage;

Demands further the occupying power lift the siege, open all borders;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to report on the violations of human rights of the Palestinian people by the occupying power;

Requests all relevant Special Rapporteurs to urgently seek and gather information on violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people and submit their reports to the next Human Rights Council session;

Requests the occupying power to fully cooperate with all the above-mentioned Rapporteurs;

Decides to dispatch an urgent independent international fact-finding mission to investigate all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by the occupying power against the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory;

And requests the Secretary General of the United Nations to investigate the latest targeting of UNRWA facilities in Gaza, including schools, that resulted in the killing of tens of Palestinian civilians including women and children."