Kuwait is keen to push forward the outputs of an upcoming United Nations Human Rights Council emergency session on the implications of the humanitarian and human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, the ambassador said on Wednesday.

The session aims to highlight the need to adopt a Human Rights Council draft resolution to establish an international investigation committee and activate accountability mechanisms for the Israeli occupation’s attacks on Gaza, Kuwait’s permanent United Nations and international organisations in Geneva representative Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim said.

The remotely-held session, which comes to fruition after pressure by Kuwait and several Islamic countries, are being held in the wake of Israel’s violations of the Geneva Convention provisions, said the diplomat in a statement.

Stemming from its commitment to defending the humanitarian and human rights conditions of the Palestinian people, Kuwait’s Foreign Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah will make an intervention during the session, the statement mentioned.

The intervention will give impetus to the work of this session and its outputs in support of the just Palestinian position, Ambassador Al-Ghunaim added. The move’s significance is also due to it being the first intervention of a Kuwaiti foreign minister at the Human Rights Council, since it was established in 2006.

The session will also be an opportunity to review and document Israel’s violations, and to prevent further aggravating the humanitarian conditions of the Palestinian people.

The emergency session will be the ninth held by the Human Rights Council to discuss Israel’s grave violations in the occupied Arab territories, including East Jerusalem

Source: Kuwait News Agency