If the powers of the Palestinian Authority are viewed as having been delegated by Israel, the question of the responsibilities of the Palestinian Authority are subsumed under that of the responsibilities of Israel. To the extent that the Palestinian Authority in fact remains subservient to the will of the Occupying Power, and as long as the occupation continues, Israel should continue to be held accountable by the humanitarian law obligations of the Fourth Geneva Convention . However, human rights organisations continue to observe continues human rights violations both committed by Israel as by the Palestinian Authority. For example, recently Israel detained 16 Palestinian children. During interrogation, two of the children were beaten and the others were threatened with physical abuse, and confessions were extracted from the arrested children.
Autonomy is a concept repugnant to the exercise of the right of self-determination of peoples.
The Palestinians had not acquired their independent nationhood at the conclusion of the British Mandate and the transfer of the Question of Palestine to the UN in 1948. Their right to self-determination had not been abrogated or dissolved at that time. On the contrary, it became active, in possession, and awaits implementation. The Oslo Accords can never derogate from the right to self-determination which asserts the right of the Palestinian people to freely decide on their own political, economic, social and cultural status. This was reaffirmed more strongly in UNGA 2787 of 6 December 1971.