Geneva: Pakistan, speaking for the Islamic countries, has underscored the need for investigating Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank to pave the way for accountability.

According to a Kashmir Media Service report on Thursday, permanent representative of Pakistan to the United Nations offices in Geneva, Bilal Ahmad told the Human Rights Council during its general debate: “It is high time that violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law including war crimes committed against the Palestinian people are investigated and accountability follows.”

At the same time, the Pakistani envoy, who was speaking on behalf of the OIC countries, voiced deep anguish over the deteriorating human rights situation in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

“We urge India to comply with the applicable UN Security Council resolutions and implement recommendations addressed to it in the two Kashmir reports by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the UN Human Rights Office, which need to be updated,” the OIC statement said.