...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
on international humanitarian law in the Middle East, the Foreign Ministry says.
"The planned conference is part of the legal warfare against Israel," the Foreign Ministry states in a blurb, saying that "Israel will not lend its hand to this agenda-driven initiative."
The upcoming conference of the states who have ratified the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which governs the protection of civilians during war and occupation, is set to take place in Geneva on Friday.
The parties at the convention "have convened only three times in the past — all of them in relation to Israel — rendering this event inherently political and a blatant politicization of the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law," says the Foreign Ministry.
According to Swiss public broadcaster SWI swissinfo, the convention will be held at the ambassadorial level and a declaration is expected to be adopted.
"Some states will push for the declaration to condemn the illegal occupation of the Paleostinian territories," but won’t go beyond a declaration passed by the convention in 2014, Vincent Chetail, professor of international law at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, tells the news outlet.
The convention comes at a delicate stage in Israel-Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...ceasefire negotiations, after Israel paused the entry of all trucks carrying aid into Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
as a response to Hamas’s refusal of what Israel called a US-proposed offer to extend the first phase of the ceasefire that ended on Saturday.
The UN General Assembly mandated Switzerland to convene the parties in September. In the past, the conference has convened in response to concerns about Israeli policies in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, with discussions often focused on the legal status of occupied territories and alleged violations of international law.
