[Al Arabiya Latest] The United Nations Security Council will hold closed-door consultations on Wednesday to consider whether to accept a Libyan request for a meeting mainly to discuss a U.N. report that accused Israel and Palestinian fighters of war crimes during Israel's assault of Gaza, diplomats said.
Libya's deputy ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi told AFP that his country circulated a letter on behalf of the U.N. Arab group requesting "an emergency meeting" of the 15-member body to consider the U.N. report.
An investigation ordered by the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council and led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone found that both the Israeli armed forces and Hamas fighters committed war crimes in the December-January war. But it was more critical of Israel. |