Hamas hails UN committee statement slamming Israeli crimes against Palestinians

A senior official of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has lauded a recent statement by a UN committee that declared it was “appalled” by the growing number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied territories.

Basem Naim, the head of Hamas’ Department of Politics and Foreign Relations, welcomed on Saturday the end-of-mission statement of the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories

“The statement of the committee constitutes a significant step towards exposing and prosecuting repeated Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people in addition to achieving the rights of the Palestinian people,” Naim said as quoted in a report by the Palestinian Information Center.

The senior Hamas official further affirmed that crimes against the Palestinian people by the occupying Israeli regime -- including killing, land confiscation, arbitrary arrest, and settlement expansion policies -- are part of the racist agenda of the illegitimate entity.

The statement was issued after the UN Special Committee’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territories as tensions escalated by the Tel Aviv regime since the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Over the past months, the Israeli regime has intensified attacks against Palestinian towns and cities throughout the occupied territories. As a result of these attacks, dozens of Palestinians have lost their lives and many others have been arrested.

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