2 (XXXV). Telegram to the Government of Israel[1]61

The Commission decided to send the following telegram to the Government of Israel: "The Commission on Human Rights, at its thirty-fifth session, expresses once more its deep concern about the systematic torture practised by Israel against Palestinian detainees, as reflected once again in recent international reports. The Commission expresses also its grave concern about the policies of repression and collective punishment pursued by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people in Palestine and in the occupied Arab territories, and in particular the bulldozing and blowing up of houses or such recent methods as the bricking up of these houses so as to render them uninhabitable, thus aggravating the sufferings of the Palestinian people. The Commission calls on the Israeli Government to cease forthwith the above practices which are in violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and to inform the Commission urgently on this matter".
[1]61 Adopted at the 1480th meeting, on 14 February 1979. See chap. II.
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