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STORY: GENEVA / ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
TRT: 2.24
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 JANUARY 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
SHOTLIST– GENEVA SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
30 JANUARY 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, pressroom
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Chanet, Judge of the Court of Cassation of France and Chair of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“Israel must cease settlement activities and provide adequate, prompt and effective remedies to the victims of violations of human rights.”
4. Med shot, photographer
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Chanet, Judge of the Court of Cassation of France and Chair of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“You will see in our report, it’s the first time you will find a historical background very exhaustive of all the settlement enterprise. So the Governments of Israel have openly, sometimes not so openly in international law stage, supported the settlements but they have the full control of the planification of the settlements.”
6. Close up, Asma Jahangir, human rights lawyer
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Chanet, Judge of the Court of Cassation of France and Chair of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“To transfer civil population in an occupied territory is prohibited by Article 49 of the Geneva Convention and falls under the provision of article 8 of the ICC statute."
8. Med shot, Unity Dow, member of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory from Botswana
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Chanet, Judge of the Court of Cassation of France and Chair of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“To put people directly or indirectly as it is said in Article 8 of the Rome Statute is a war crime.”
10. Med shot, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Asma Jahangir, Pakistani human rights lawyer and member of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“Looking at the facts we have given the findings and the conclusions which say, number one, that these violations that have been carried out seriously impinge on the self determination of the people. Number two, we are very concerned about the rights of the child in the Palestinian territories have been violated time and again. Number three, is that, what we have said it is an offense under international law. How that is going to play out, its implementation is something for the international institutions to take up and decide in the parameters of their jurisdiction and their procedures and legislation.
12. Wide shot, journalists
UN human rights investigators called on Israel today (31 January) to halt settlement expansion and withdraw all half a million Jewish settlers from the occupied West Bank, saying that its practices could constitute possible war crimes.
The International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory today published its findings on the implications Israeli settlements have upon the human rights of the Palestinian people.
The three-member panel said private companies should stop working in the settlements if their work adversely affected the human rights of Palestinians, and urged member states to ensure companies respected human rights.
"Israel must cease settlement activities and provide adequate, prompt and effective remedy to the victims of violations of human rights," Christine Chanet, a French judge who led the UN inquiry, told journalists at a press briefing in Geneva.
Since 1967, Israeli governments have openly led, directly participated in, and had full control of the planning, construction, development, consolidation and encouragement of settlements, the report states. "The governments of Israel have openly, sometimes not so openly in international law stage, supported the settlements…they have the full control of the planification of the settlements,” said Chanet.
The report states that settlements are established and developed for the exclusive benefit of Israeli Jews. The settlements are maintained and advanced through a system of total segregation between the settlers and the rest of the population living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This system of segregation is supported and facilitated by strict military and law enforcement control to the detriment of the rights of the Palestinian population.
“We are today calling on the government of Israel to ensure full accountability for all violations, put an end to the policy of impunity and to ensure justice for all victims,” said fact-finding mission member Asma Jahangir, a a leading Pakistani human rights lawyer.
