The international community should always be reminded to hold Israeli occupation forces accountable for violating international law in occupied Palestinian territories so they know they “do not have green light” for their crimes, the State of Kuwait has said.

Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim, Kuwait’s permanent representative to the UN and, said the Israeli occupation must stop “its crimes against unarmed civilians.”

Kuwait’s permanent representative to the UN said international law on human rights and international humanitarian law should be applied in occupied Palestinian territories, including in East Jerusalem. Some Israeli violations are “considered war crimes and crimes against humanity, which necessitates the continuation of deliberations over the deterioration of human rights in occupied Arab territories within Article Seven of the UN HRC,” he was quoted by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).

The occupation authorities “continue their discrimination policy and ethnic cleansing, especially against the right of Palestinian people to live and their right of self-determination, ending the occupation and establishing the independent and sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital in line with relevant UN resolution, Arab Peace Initiative and two-state solution,” said Ghunaim.

“The State of Kuwait strongly condemns all violations against international law on human rights and international humanitarian law, which are committed by Israel, the occupying power, against the Palestinian people,” he said. Kuwait, he said, also condemned Israel’s Judaization of occupied Jerusalem by changing its religious and historic identities, as well as destroying private and public properties.

These are violations of the 4th Geneva Convention that will undermine international efforts to end the occupation and establish the independent Palestinian state, said Ghunaim. The Israeli occupation, he added, “was also attacking Palestinians in Jerusalem, inside Al-Haram Al-Shareef, and forcing eviction of tens of Palestinian families in Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhoods.”