It is a symbolic text which could further isolate Israel a little more on the international scene. The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council must say this Friday, April 5, whether it calls for an arms embargo on Israel. The text is likely to pass.
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With our correspondent in Geneva, Jeremy Lanche
It was Pakistan which filed the draft resolution and which can count, behind it, on almost all of the 56 countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The text is a virulent charge against Israela country accused of resorting to “ wide-range explosive weapons », therefore without consideration for the lives of civilians, in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
The request is therefore made to all States to stop selling weapons or military equipment to Israel in order to prevent further violations of international humanitarian law. Problem: only the UN Security Council can decide on an embargo, but not the Human Rights Council.
Even if the text should pass, perhaps counting on the more or less accepted absences of Western countries, there is little chance that Israel will feel bound by the resolution. The country, which withdrew from the Council, has for years denounced the body, accused of giving disproportionate importance to the Palestinian question.
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