46 The Independent Commission for Human Rights - ICHR • Demand that the international community take urgent action to put into effect and apply accountability mechanisms to perpetrators of violations against Palestinian civilians. Perpetrators and persons ordering the perpetration of these abuses will be prosecuted and punished, bringing an end to the impunity of Israeli commanders and forces. • Call on the Human Rights Council to establish fact finding commission to investigate Palestinian human rights abuses by the Israeli occupying authorities and their impact on the ability of the State of Palestine to fulfil its international obligations following accession to human rights conventions. • Call on the Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detention to visit Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and closely view their situation and Israeli policies against them in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The State of Palestine will call on the international community to support political prisoners, intervention and put pressure on the occupying Power to release ill and older prisoners as well as incarcerated women and children. In addition to demanding international community intervention, the State of Palestine will also request that an international fact finding commission to established to monitor prisoners’ living and detention conditions. • Maintain diplomatic efforts and target United Nations member States to place pressure on the occupying State to cease settlement activity and expansion throughout the oPt as well as to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and all other resolutions on settlement activity. • Call on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to initiate formal investigation into the Israeli crimes, including crimes against humanity, hold Israeli to account for the crimes it has perpetrated, and prosecute all persons who carried out and ordered these crimes. War crimes may not be subject to any statute of limitations. • Call on human rights organisations to support the State of Palestine’s international effort to prosecute Israeli perpetrators of war crimes. Together with human rights groups, national efforts will be concerted and intensified to monitor, document and expose Israeli crimes. • Ensure that relevant departments throughout Palestinian ministries and institutions work seriously towards monitoring and documenting Israeli practices and violations of human rights as a prelude to file a cast to the ICC. Since the State of Palestine is now a State Party to the Rome Statute, the ICC has decided that the Court jurisdiction is applicable to the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967. • Address the sponsoring States of the Oslo Accords and Paris Economic Protocol, compile a file of Israeli violations of these agreements, exert pressure on the occupying Power, and review the said agreements. • Make concerted efforts to ensure that international humanitarian actors and human rights organisations stand up to their obligations to provide protection to institutions working for the realisation of economic, social, and cultural rights in Palestine because the Israeli occupying authorities continue to target these groups. • Make efforts to empower Palestinians access water sources and control natural resources to ensure an adequate standard of living, achieve development, and enjoy human rights throughout the Palestinian territory. • Call on Palestinian government bodies to address UN treaty bodies to make clear obstacles and challenges posed by the Israeli practices to the ability of the State of Palestine to discharge its assigned functions and implement international obligations, which have been established by the signing of human rights conventions. The Situation of Human Rights in Palestine