UN Rights Leader Condemns ‘Shocking’ Attack On Mourners Of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

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Michele Bachelet, Presidente of Chile speaks during Special Session of the Human Rights Council. 29 March 2017.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the attack on mourners at the East Jerusalem funeral procession of slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, The Hill reports.

In remarks delivered in Geneva, High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet called footage of the Israeli police’s attack on mourners at the funeral procession “shocking,” noting that at least 33 people were injured in the violence. “The Israeli use of force, which was being filmed and broadcast live, appeared to be unnecessary and must be promptly and transparently investigated,” Bachelet said. “There must be accountability for the terrible killing not just of Shireen Abu Akleh but for all the killings and serious injuries in the occupied Palestinian territory,” she added.

Bachelet placed the journalist’s killing in the context of a slew of other killings of Palestinian people by Israeli security forces, including 48 deaths this year alone. “As I have called for many times before, there must be appropriate investigations into the actions of Israeli security forces,” she said Saturday, noting that the “culture of impunity must end now.”


5 COMMENTS

  1. “There must be accountability for … all the killings and serious injuries in the occupied Palestinian territory.”

    Yeah, lets start with the Arab deliberate killings of Jewish civilians!

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