What the UN cannot say, said the former director, is the fact that genocide is allegedly taking place.
“I worked in these halls during the genocides of Tutsi, Bosnian Muslims, Yazidis and Rohingya. In each case, as the dust settled on the atrocities committed against defenseless civilian populations, it became painfully clear that we had failed in our duty to fulfill them.” “It’s about preventing mass atrocities, protecting the vulnerable and to hold the perpetrators accountable,” he wrote.
“And so it has been throughout the existence of the United Nations, with successive waves of murder and persecution against Palestinians,” he said.
“High Commissioner, we are failing again,” he wrote to his boss, the Austrian Volker Türk.
“I know full well that the concept of genocide has often been politically abused. But the current mass massacre of the Palestinian people, which has its roots in an ethnonationalist settlercolonial ideology and represents a continuation of decades of systematic persecution and cleansing, is based solely on…” “Your condition as Arabs and coupled with explicit declarations of intent from the leaders of the Israeli government and of the Armed Forces leave no room for doubt or debate,” he stressed.
“In Gaza, civilian homes, schools, churches, mosques and medical facilities are being randomly attacked and thousands of civilians are being massacred. In the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, houses are being confiscated and redistributed solely on the basis of race, and violent settler pogroms are taking place.” are accompanied by Israeli military units. Apartheid reigns throughout the country” he warned.