In a 23-8 vote, the UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to endorse a report on Israel’s treatment protests along the Gaza Strip, which determined that the government’s actions amounted to war crimes against civilians in Gaza.
The report itself was published in late February,
and found that Israel intentionally shot both children and journalists
in the Gaza Strip during those protests. They noted that 154 out of 183
people killed at the time had been unarmed.
Israeli officials insisted at the time the report came out that the
killings amounted to the “right of self-defense and the obligation to
defend its citizens and borders.” Israeli officials now say the only
supporters of the resolution are dictatorships and “hypocrites.”
Other UNHRC resolutions, also opposed as “absurd” by Israel, included an
endorsement of the right of Palestinian self-determination, and
criticism of Israeli abuses in the occupied territories, and one on the
illegality of Israeli settlements.
UN Rights Council Accuses Israel of War Crimes in Gaza
Council approves February report on intentionally killing civilians
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