Emmanuel Ukudolo I Wednesday, March 06, 2024
JEDDAH – The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC has called on the United Nations, UN to list the Israeli occupation forces – Israeli Defence Forces- (IDF) in the UN Secretary-General’s annual report on children and armed conflict for parties that commit grave violations against children.
The OIC which made the call in Jeddah, during the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Member States in Jeddah, said the listing becomes imperative because of the deliberate targeting of Palestinian children, including killing, injuring, arresting, kidnaping, torturing the children and targeting their schools and hospitals and preventing safe corridors for humanitarian assistance.
The OIC averred that the offences committed by the Israeli occupation forces fall under the six grave violations of relevant Security Council resolutions and the shocking report issued by the monitoring mechanism.
The OIC calls on member states to take practical steps to stop immediately the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, deliver humanitarian aid and lift the blockade on Palestine.
The cooperation also requests states to take the necessary measures to prevent Israel, the occupying power, from continuing its crimes against the Palestinian people and to take practical steps to stop its flagrant violations of international law, including by imposing sanctions, and stopping the export of weapons and ammunition, which its army uses to carry out the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip and terrorise settlers, killing and destroying properties in the West Bank, including Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and preventing them from using of its ports and airspace to transport these weapons and ammunition.
The OIC warns against the escalation of attacks by the Israeli occupation army and the terrorism of the settlers militias supported by weapons and protection from the occupation forces in Al-Quds Ash-Sharif and the West Bank in their continuing aggression against the civilian population and their property, including killing, destroying, displacing, building and expanding settlements, within the framework of its frenzied colonial campaign aimed at annexing the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
It stresses the need to take the necessary steps to hold settlers accountable for their crimes, including imposition of trade and visa sanctions.
The OIC calls on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to expedite the criminal investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed by officials of the Israeli colonial occupation government against the defenceless Palestinians and to bring the criminals to international justice.
The OIC extends its thanks to (South Africa, Comoros, Djibouti, Bolivia, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Chile, and Mexico) for referring the situation in the States of Palestine to the International Criminal Court and called on the Member States, which are members in the International Criminal Court, to refer crimes committed in Palestine to the Court as soon as possible, and also calls on the Member States to provide political, technical, and financial support for the State of Palestine in these matters, including supporting the approach to universal jurisdiction to address the crimes of the occupation and hold it accountable.
