  {"id":186506,"date":"2009-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=186506"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:05:22","slug":"auto-insert-186506","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-186506\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights situation in Palestine and other OATs\/Realization of Palestinian rights &#8211; HRC 12th session &#8211; NGO statement (Organization for Defending Victims of Violence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN PALESTINE <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Written statement<\/strong>* <strong>submitted by the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV),<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>a non-governmental organization in special consultative status <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Secretary-General has received the following written statement which is circulated in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1996\/31. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">[28 August 2009]<\/span><\/p>\n<hr height=\"1px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The subject of Palestine and the fundamental human rights of Palestinians is a long subject full of ups and downs. For years now the Palestinians and Israelis have been confronted with challenges in the way of the realisation of the rights of Palestinians. And the lengthiness of this process and changes in the human and environment factor over the period of time, have constantly affected the process of these changes. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Over the last six months, several geographic developments have taken place in Palestine, some of which can be helpful in the just and fair peace talks process for Palestine, and some other developments have sadly been placed as obstacles against this process. The following is a confirmation of the aforementioned claims:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The re-election of Mahmoud Abbas as the leader of Fath<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">11% economic growth in the West Bank and reduction in Israeli imposed restrictions in the region. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Agreement to continue talks between two Palestinian sides following the month of Ramadan. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Arrest of Al-Qaeda associated elements in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas authority. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">International community&#8217;s pressures &#8211; EU and the United States in particular &#8211; on Israel to continue the peace talks. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Halt in the expansion of the settlements in the existing settlements and halt in the construction of new settlements in the occupied territories. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Wish for continued talks between Hamas and Israel for the fate of the captured Israeli soldier. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Continuation of imposed Israeli restriction against the Gaza Strip regarding food, medicine and people&#8217;s general needs. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Delay in the talks process due to the existence of political differences between the Palestinian factions. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The revelation of documents regarding the trafficking of organs of Palestinian martyrs by the Israeli military. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">The disclosure of documents regarding the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields in the 33 day Gaza War. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">As a non-governmental organization active in the field of human rights, the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence, reaching a conclusion to the abovementioned points, hopes and calls for an increase in the positive points and decrease in the negative points, and hopes for a future for a free, independent, and peace-seeking sovereign state of Palestine, in peaceful coexistence in the region. <\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8211; 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