Michael Lynk, a United Nations human rights expert, has released his report on the forty-fourth session of the Human Rights Council, urging Israel to immediately stop all crimes amounting to collective punishment against the Palestinian people. Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, has said that the extent of the devastating impact of the Israeli policy of collective punishment can be seen strikingly in the ongoing 13-year-old closure of Gaza which now suffers from a completely collapsed economy, devastated infrastructure and a barely functioning social service system. Lynk has provided a list of recommendations in which he called on Israel to comply with international law and international consensus by putting a full and urgent end to its 53-year occupation of Palestinian land, lynk also has stressed o the fact that Israel relies on collective punishment as “a prominent tool among its coercive tools for controlling the Palestinian population” and has criticized Israel’s continued policy to punitively demolish Palestinian homes, which he says contributes to an atmosphere of hatred and vengeance. To check the news, click here