Earlier, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had sounded out such warning. In response, Israel authorities said they would deny visas to UN officials seeking entry into Gaza.
“And so it has been with successive waves of murder and persecution against the Palestinians throughout the entire life of the UN,” he wrote lamenting, “High Commissioner, we are failing again.” • Corporate media are violating the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights by “continuously dehumanizing Palestinians.” He pointed out that broadcasting propaganda for war and advocacies of national, racial or religious hatred… “constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility and violence.”
Decades of distortion by the “illusory” promises of Oslo’s “two-state solution” to the Israel-Palestine conflict, Mokhiber noted, have diverted the OHCHR from its core duties to defend international law, international human rights and the UN charter itself. “While my own government… and much of US media were still supporting or justifying South Africa’s apartheid, Israeli repression and Central America’s death squads, the UN was standing up for the oppressed peoples of those lands,” he wrote. “We had international law … human rights… and principle on our side. Our authority was rooted in our integrity. But no more.”
This is a case of child trafficking punishable under Republic Act 9208 and Child Abuse punishable under RA 7610. The main issue resolved here is the credibility of the complaining witness who is only 14 years...