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Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel

After presenting the report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem ad in Israel to the General Assembly on 27 October 2022, the Chair of the Commission, Navanethem Pillay, told reporters in New York that “the policies and actions by Israeli governments may amount international crimes.” Pillay, a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said these crimes include “transferring, directly or indirectly, part of one's own civilian population into the occupied territory, and the crime against humanity, of deportation and forcible transfer.” She said, “some of Israel's policies and actions in the West Bank are only cosmetically intended to address the so-called security concerns, and that security is often used as a pretext by Israel to justify territorial expansion.” Asked about statements made by Israel’s Ambassador Gilad Erdan, Pillay said, “I am not antisemitic; let me make that clear. And then to add insult to injury, they said that the report is also antisemitic. Now, there isn't a word in this report that can even be interpreted as antisemitic. So, of course, it's not new to us that this is always raised as a diversion.” Asked about including apartheid into the scope of the Commission’s investigations, the Chair said, “in this report, we are focusing on the root cause as we see it, which is the occupation. And of course, part of it lies in the apartheid and discrimination. We will be coming to that. That's the beauty of this open-ended mandate. It gives us a scope to go in-depth on too many issues, and apartheid would be one of them.” Miloon Kothari, a member of the Commission of Inquiry, said, “there's a number of immediate steps that could be taken,” but added that “in fact, in our report, we say clearly that there is no sign of the occupation, being, you know, either slowed down or reversed, if anything, Israel has taken the decision that it's that's how it's going to be, it's going to be permanent.” Responding to a journalist, another member of the Commission, Chris Sidoti, said, “our report in June did refer to the Hamas rocket attacks. Indiscriminate firing of rockets into civilian population areas is a war crime. We said that. And there is no doubt about that, as a fact. The obligations under international humanitarian law and international human rights law, bind all those exercising some form of state authority in Israel, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza, and we will deal with it.” Earlier, in her address to the General Assembly’s Third Committee, Pillay said, “after 55 years, Israel is treating the occupation as a permanent fixture, and has for all intents and purposes annexed part of the West Bank, while seeking to hide behind a fiction of temporariness. This permanence and annexation, including the purported de jure annexation, of East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights have led this permission to conclude that Israel's occupation is now unlawful.”