On Thursday, the "Organization for Defending Victims of Violence" organized a seminar in the Swiss city of Geneva on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The seminar was attended by the Special Rapporteur on the freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Gina Romero, in addition to a number of human rights activists, professors and researchers in international law, who presented the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories.
The researchers presented the tragic conditions that the Palestinians suffer in the occupied territories, especially in the Gaza Strip, which is exposed to a war of genocide and comprehensive destruction, making it difficult to restore these camps due to the lack of the most basic raw materials.
They pointed out that the people of Gaza suffer from the spread of epidemics, infectious, and chronic diseases, which lead to physical disabilities for children and adults, as well as psychological illnesses, after 9 months of the crime committed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza, where the medical staff is directly targeted.
The lecturers warned that destroying the medical infrastructure protected by the Geneva Conventions, and preventing the entry of medical and humanitarian aid, leaves people with only two options, "either death by Israeli bombing or death from hunger and disease," considering that this constitutes an insult to all societies, especially to those that have not yet taken action.
The lecturers in the seminar stressed the need to continue the movements in universities and streets in all countries, in support of Gaza, and to expose the crimes of the Israeli occupation to international public opinion, and to continue pressuring governments to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip, in addition to trying the leaders of the occupation for their crimes before international courts.