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2024-01-17 International-UN-NGOs
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Israel forbids doctors from speaking to UN group investigating Oct. 7 atrocities
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[IsraelTimes] The Health Ministry on Monday instructed members of the healthcare system not to cooperate with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, citing its perceived anti-Israel stance.
In recent weeks, senior physicians and hospital staff who treated October 7 victims and released hostages have received letters and emails from the commission, which operates under the UN Council for Human Rights. The commission requested information and interviews for its investigation of international and gender-based crimes since the beginning of the current Israel-Hamas war.
The findings of the commission’s investigations will be presented in its reports to the Human Rights Council in June and to the UN General Assembly in October.
Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported that the Justice Ministry instructed the legal department of the Health Ministry to tell Israeli doctors and others involved in the care of October 7 victims and released hostages not to speak with the committee of inquiry.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat called the commission "an anti-Israeli and antisemitic body" and said Israel would not cooperate with it.
When asked by The Times of Israel what these claims were based on, Haiat said, "The commission of inquiry is there to investigate Israel without any time limits, unlike any other commission of inquiry from the UN system."
"Furthermore, the three people chosen to head it are famous antisemitic and anti-Israel people," Haiat added.
The commission’s chair is Navanethem (Navi) Pillay from South Africa, who served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014 and is currently a judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The commission’s other leaders are Miloon Kothari from India, the first UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, and Chris Sidoti from Australia, an international human rights consultant and an expert in national human rights institutions and international human rights law and mechanisms.
All three have made statements in the past that Israel has deemed to be incorrect, offensive, or defamatory regarding the Jewish state or the global Jewish community, or both.
Muslems start wars. Muslems lose wars they start. The UN saves them from the consequences. 
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