TEHRAN, Feb 10 -Human rights organizations need to take concrete action in order to stop Israel’s killing of Palestinians, says an analyst, adding that they are only paying lip service to the Palestinian cause.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed sorrow over the recent killing of two Palestinian teenage boys by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to violence against children.
“Let’s talk for a moment about these NGOs, these organizations that apparently with the best of intentions come out pretty much every week with a press release to denounce what’s in effect an open season in occupied Palestine by the occupation forces executing Palestinians, and very often Palestinian children. And what I want to say about that is that nobody is under any illusions any more. It doesn’t really matter what they say. Nobody is listening and in fact we now have moved decidedly into a new era where we just pretend to have human rights,” Barry Grossman, international lawyer told Press TV in an interview on Sunday.
“So what we have here is a problem. We here this over and over again every week from Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, UNICEF and a whole range of other organizations who with the best of intentions and absolutely correctly denounce this ongoing abuse of Palestinians,” he added.
Hamza Shtewi and Hasan Shalabi were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza on Friday during weekly protests named “The Great March of Return.”
In a statement released on Saturday, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Geert Cappelaere said that the agency was “deeply saddened” by the killings.
The March of Return demonstrations are held every week to demand the right to return of the Palestinians driven out of their homeland by Israeli aggression. They also demand a halt to Israel’s inhumane blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has deprived its roughly two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.
Israeli forces use live ammunition against protesters in Gaza.
The Gaza Strip has been under a crippling siege since 2007 and witnessed three wars since 2008.
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