Amnesty’s report “has legal value under international law” because it gives the International Criminal Court the ability to “consider the crime of apartheid as a crime against humanity committed against the Palestinian people in a systematic way,” he said, for example, the Minister of Justice of the Palestinian National Authority, Mohammad Shalaldeh.
Interviewed by the official Wafa agency, Shalaldeh invited Amnesty to “send missions and investigators” to “learn about human rights violations against civilians and prisoners, specifically sick prisoners and administrative detainees” in Israeli jails.
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Across the street, the Simon Wiesenthal Center recalled that the introduction of the apartheid concept at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict took place in 2001 during “the unfortunate UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban,” precisely in South Africa. .
Amnesty, Wiesenthal spokespersons asserted, “accuses Israel of crimes against humanity for the crime of existing.”
“Amnesty’s behavior borders on the criminal in knowingly and deliberately playing a central role in the international campaign to portray the Jewish state as an illegitimate state,” it added.
As is generally the case in this conflict, everyone is somewhat right. What is striking is, in any case, the disproportionate attention given to the Arab-Israeli confrontation that, since the middle of the last century, has claimed the lives of around 50,000 people, according to different estimates.