US pressured Palestinian Authority to drop investigative power from UN resolution

A UN Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution that would have established a mechanism to help with the investigation of crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories was watered down following backroom pressure from the US, a US official and a source briefed by a European diplomat told Middle East Eye.

The final wording of the resolution, adopted by the council this week, invites the UN General Assembly only “to consider establishing” such a body.

Read more: It is clear from publicly available drafts that the mechanism’s establishment had been deleted from the resolution