OIC Welcomes Special Rapporteur’s Report on Human Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territory, Highlights the Gravity of Its Findings, and Urges Implementation

The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomed the report issued by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Ms Francesca Albanese, entitled “Torture and Genocide”.

The OIC General Secretariat noted the gravity of the report’s findings, which legally document the Israeli occupation’s collective, deliberate and systematic use of torture as part of the ongoing crime of genocide against the Palestinian people, particularly Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons, whether through policies of dehumanisation, physical torture, psychological terror, sexual violence and rape, collective punishment and starvation, or through crimes of forced displacement, siege, destruction of infrastructure, and the prevention of humanitarian aid and food, and other measures and practices that amount to war crimes and crimes of genocide under international criminal law.

The OIC General Secretariat reiterated its support for the important role played by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, calling on the international community to assume its legal, political and moral responsibilities to implement the report’s recommendations, to work towards dismantling the apartheid regime, ending the colonial occupation, putting an end to all ongoing crimes and violations committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people, criminalizing them, and ensuring accountability and an end to impunity.