UN rapporteur calls for halting sale of weapons to Zionist entity

WORLD, March 22 (YPA) – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, affirmed that nothing justifies continuing arms sales to the Zionist entity that is murdering more Palestinian civilians by countries that respect the principle of the universality of human rights.

“Selling weapons to Israel that murder more Palestinian civilians is a “war on human rights” and nothing justifies continuing arms sales,” Mary Lawlor said.

“There exist no moral arguments that can justify the continued sale of weapons to Israel by states that respect the principle of the universality of human rights,” she added.

“Israel has demonstrated over time that it will use such weapons “indiscriminately against Palestinians,” she added, noting that any claims by Israel of self-defense have long since been “invalidated” by the disproportionality of the response.

Lawlor said the human rights defenders, journalists and health care workers that have been killed in the besieged Gaza Strip over the past few months, recalling that this is a “war on women and children,” who account for a reported 72% of the nearly 32,000 Palestinians deaths in Gaza.

On journalist casualties, Lawlor indicated that more than 122 journalists and media workers have been killed in the Gaza Strip by Israel.

Lawlor emphasized that the international human rights architecture is “creaking under the weight of the hypocrisy” of countries who expressed support for a rules-based order but at the same time continue to send weapons to Israel that kill more Palestinian civilians, noting “above all, this is a war on human rights.”

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