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Israel Withdraws From UN Human Rights Council
Israel accuses the UNHRC of longstanding bias against the Jewish state and says it joins the United States in the decision to withdraw.
Israel on Feb. 5 withdrew from the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC), citing “ongoing and unrelenting institutional bias” against the Jewish state.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, in a social media post announcing the withdrawal, cited President Donald Trump’s decision announced the previous day to pull the United States out of the council.
“Israel joins the United States and will not participate in the UNHRC,” Sa'ar wrote.
Neither the United States nor Israel are among the group’s 47 members but, like all U.N. members, have informal observer status and a seat in the council meeting chamber.
One of the U.N.’s top officials on the Palestinian region decried Israel’s move as “extremely serious.”
“It shows the hubris and lack of realization of what they have done. They insist in self-righteousness, that they have nothing to be held accountable for, and they are proving it to the entire international community,” said Francesca Albanese, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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