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| Israel says it won’t cooperate with UN human rights council probe of Gaza deaths | |
| 2018-05-19 | |
Israel said Friday that it will not cooperate with an investigation ordered by the UN Human Rights Council into the IDF’s killing of Paleostinians in violence on the Gazoo border this week. The US, one of two countries to vote against the investigation, called the move "another shameful day for human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... The UN’s top human rights body voted through a resolution calling on the council to "urgently dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry" after the deaths of some 60 Paleostinians ‐ the council’s highest-level of investigation. Almost all of the dead were members of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, the terror group has acknowledged. "We have no intention of cooperating," Israel’s deputy foreign minister said. The council voted 29 in favor and two against with 14 countries abstaining. Australia and the US were the two countries to oppose the decision. The council also condemned "the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force by the Israeli occupying forces against Paleostinian civilians." The inquiry mandated by the council will be asked to produce a final report next March. Israel is not a member of the UNHRC, and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday called on the US to leave it. "We need to stop lending a hand to this hypocrisy-fest," he said. The draft resolution, which was presented by Pakistain on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and backed by 47 UN member states, said Sherlocks should probe "all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law ... in the context of the military assaults on large-scale civilian protests that began on 30 March 2018." It said the aim should be to "establish the facts and circumstances" around "alleged violations and abuses including those that may amount to war crimes and to identify those responsible." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 On the other hand, how hard would it be to convince ISIS in Gaza that they can win a lot of street cred in Muslim world by killing the investigators - who are American/Russian spies anyway? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-05-19 04:38 |