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Subject: Israel/Occupied Territories: Practical measures are required - words
are not enough
* News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty
International *
19 April 2002
MDE 15/056/2002
70/02
As the UN Security Council meets today to discuss the grave
situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories, Amnesty
International reiterates its calls for an international inquiry
into alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in Jenin
Refugee Camp since 3 April 2002, and the deployment of
international human rights monitors.
Amnesty International delegates in Jenin said "There is
strong evidence that human rights and international humanitarian
law were breached in Jenin by the Israeli Defence Forces."
Amnesty International delegate, Derrick Pounder, a
forensic pathologist, performed autopsies on two bodies in Jenin
Hospital both of which gave "cause for suspicion". Delegates
heard accounts of houses demolished with people still inside
them, and reports of extrajudicial executions.
"The longer the bodies deteriorate, the more the evidence
deteriorates," said Professor Pounder. "These facts call out for
an urgent independent, international, expert inquiry," Amnesty
International said.
In a statement submitted to the Security Council
yesterday, Amnesty International repeated its call for the
deployment of expert human rights monitors, which could save
Palestinian and Israeli lives. These experts must be mandated to
monitor, investigate and report on the respect for international
human rights and international humanitarian law, including the
Fourth Geneva Convention. Monitors must be able to visit all
places and interview individuals freely and confidentially. Both
the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority must permit
and assist monitors to work effectively within their
jurisdictions and take all necessary measures to ensure the
monitors' security.
Speaking from Jenin Refugee camp, Javier Zuniga of
Amnesty International said, "Independent and impartial reporting
is urgently required as are measures to ensure that the
desperately needed humanitarian assistance is not obstructed and
reaches those in need. Practical measures are required -- words
are not enough."
Amnesty International's 18 April statement to the UN Security
Council (AI Index: MDE 01/003/2002) on the deployment of monitors
is available on request.
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