The conflict in Gaza has entered the “realm of non-accountability,” President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins told RTE radio on Aug. 23.
“We are in an extraordinary moment where you have three members of (the Israeli) cabinet who are interested explicitly in illegality, but they’re not worried about international law,” he said.
“The main thing is, I think, for a global reassertion of the importance of the General Assembly,” he added. “I have been outlining recently how in the Charter there is a mechanism called Chapter Seven, where, if a certain proportion of the committee of the General Assembly supported, even if the Security Council uses the veto to block it, the secretary general can call for a force to be put together to guarantee humanitarian access.”
