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Throughout the UN Human Rights Council’s 58th regular session, BADIL Resource Center continued to highlight that the failure of states to fulfill their obligations to protect and impose sanctions on the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime constitutes complicity and enables the continuation and escalation of Israeli crimes and atrocities.  

Under Item #7, BADIL’s oral intervention called on the UN and member states to move beyond condemnation to enforcement, through the imposition of military, economic and political sanctions against the Israeli regime to ensure the fulfillment of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, to end Israeli international crimes, as well as the ongoing genocide, begin the process of decolonization and uphold the principles of international law.

Find the video here, at 2:42:10

Under Item #9, BADIL’s oral intervention highlighted the escalation of the Israeli policy of segregation, fragmentation and isolation - a component of apartheid – in the West Bank. Under the guise of “security”, the Israeli regime subjugates and humiliates Palestinians, destroying their social cohesion and economy. The UN, as it did with apartheid South Africa, must suspend the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime’s membership, revoke its privileges, and call on its member states to impose sanctions.

Find the video here, at 1:20:20