A 24 year-old Swedish activist Benjamin Ladraa, who has walked more than 4,000 kilometres since the start of his journey last August, has reached to Beirut after he took a ferry from the Turkish coast.
The Swedish activist is on a treacherous walk from Sweden to Palestine to raise awareness on the human rights violations in the occupied territories.
Benjamin Ladraa has been walking for ten months through much of Europe and Asia, and is now in Lebanon hoping to reach Palestine within the next three weeks.
Earlier this week Ladraa visited two Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, and took to Facebook to express his disappointment over their condition.
The UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein recently condemned reckless killing of peaceful Palestinian protesters by Israeli forces, writing in a message carried on the UN human rights Twitter account that “shocking killing of dozens, injury of hundreds by Israeli live fire in Gaza must stop now. The right to life must be respected”.
Al-Hussein also called for punishment of those behind killing of Palestinians saying that “those responsible for outrageous human rights violations must be held to account”.
The Amnesty International has also stressed that the attacks on Palestinian protesters by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip are “willful killings constituting war crimes".
