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December 12, 2024

U.N. Experts Urge World to Hold Israel Accountable, Call on U.S. and Germany to Halt Arms Supplies
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At the Geneva U.N. headquarters, a panel of experts held a news
conference and called for a halt to direct arms transfers to Israel, and
a review of Israel's U.N. membership over its genocide in Gaza. This is
U.N. special rapporteur Ben Saul.

Ben Saul: "If lawlessness on this scale and of this extremity has no
consequences, then it sends a signal to everybody else that you can
behave in the same way, and the whole system begins to break down. …
Germany and the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to
Israel. They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the
weapons that kill the Palestinians."



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