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GENEVA / ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
STORY: GENEVA / ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
TRT: 2.16
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 MARCH 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
FILE – RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations
18 MARCH 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Med shot, delegates at the Human Rights Council
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Khraishi, Delegate of the Palestinian State:
“The recommendations and recommendations of your report which is important, objective, professional, balanced and unbiased, must be implemented without any condition, so that the
Palestinian people can exercise its basic right to self-determination. The establishment of settlements in the occupied state of Palestine kills any possibility to achieve the two states’ solution, and runs counter to the advisory opinion of the ICJ in 2004 and allows for a policy of apartheid by building special roads for the exclusive use of Jewish settlers. Settlement is also a flagrant violation of the right to movement of peoples and goods. It consolidates a policy of
discrimination, arbitrary detention, preventing people from reaching places of worship. It hampers education, and puts a hold on natural resources.”
4. Close up, Israel‘s empty seat
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mariangela Zappia, Delegate of the European Union:
“The European Union has taken careful note of the recommendations set out
in the report, and reiterates its call on the Government of Israel to stop settlement expansion in all its forms. The European Union has expressed its deep dismay and strong opposition to the latest Israeli settlement plans and has made it clear that it will closely monitor the situation and its other implications, and act accordingly.”
6. Zoom out, Israel‘s empty seat
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Christine Chanet, United Nations Human Rights Committee:
“The International Court of Justice recognizes the Palestinian people, and that settlements fragmenting their territories are breaking the Geneva Convention, making it impossible for the Palestinian people to dispose of this land. The nature of these violations led the mission to conclude that this could be part and parcel of what is provided for in the Rome Convention concerning the statute of the international criminal court.”
8. Wide shot, Human Rights Council
Israel must immediately and without preconditions stop all settlement expansion and begin withdrawing its settlers from the Palestinian territories, a UN expert group urged today (18 March).
Palestinian representative Ibrahim Khrashi criticised recent comments from Israeli politicians in support of the settlements and said the building of settlements led to a policy of apartheid and warned that “the establishment of settlements in the occupied state of Palestine, kills any possibility to achieve the two-state solution.”
The delegate for the European Union, Mariangela Zappia, called on the Government of Israel “to stop settlement expansion in all its forms” and expressed “deep dismay and strong opposition to the latest Israeli settlement plans.”
Also addressing the Council in Geneva, Christine Chanet, who heads the fact finding mission into Israeli settlements, said that settlements are “fragmenting” the Palestinian territories in contravention of the Geneva Convention, “making it impossible for the Palestinian people to dispose of this land.”
Chanet, was presenting a report commissioned by the Council that deemed that the settlements were leading to Palestinians' human rights "being violated consistently and on a daily basis."
The remarks came two days ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama who has urged Israel to halt settlement on land that Palestinians seek for a state. Israel has come under widespread international criticism for ramping up its construction of settlements in the Palestinian territories, notably in occupied east Jerusalem. In December and January, Israel announced plans to build more than 11,000 new houses in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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