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Re: Joint Urgent Appeal to the UN Special Procedures ahead of the One-Year Commemoration of the “Great Return March” in the Gaza Strip

To the attention of:

• -  Mr Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967;

• -  Ms Agnes Callamard, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions;

• -  Mr Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, Special Rapporteur on rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association;

• -  Mr David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression;

• -  Ms Leilani Farha, Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context;

• -  Mr Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders;

• -  Mr Idriss Jazairy, Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive

  measures on the enjoyment of human rights; and

• -  Mr Dainius Pūras, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health;