MaximsNewsNetwork: UN GAZA REPORT - HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL & INTERNATIONAL LAW

MaximsNewsNetwork: 16 October 2009 - UNTV: The United Nations Human Rights Council endorses the report on this winter's Gaza conflict, prepared by a team of human rights experts it named to look into alleged violations of human rights and humanitarian law.

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today has endorsed the report on this winter's Gaza conflict, prepared by a team of human rights experts it named to look into alleged violations of human rights and humanitarian law.

The four investigators led by South African Judge Richard Goldstone believed both Israeli troops and the Palestinian Hamas group may have committed war crimes.
They called on the Israeli government and the Palestinian authorities to carry out credible investigations into the alleged abuses and recommended that the Security Council send the matter to the International Criminal Court if effective action is not taken in six months.
The Human Rights Council's endorsement of the report came in a resolution adopted at the end of a two-day Special Session on the human rights situation in the Occupuied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

Twenty five countries, mainly developing states, voted in favour of the resolution, the United States and five European countries opposed it and eleven abstained.
Britain, France and three other countries did not vote.
Introducing the resolution, Aftab Ahmad Khokher of Pakistan described it as a plan of action to address the grave and on-going human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and to act urgently on the recommendations of the Goldstone report and those of a report by Human Rights High Commissioner Navi Pillay.

Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi of Palestine said the Palestinians' only request was that criminals and murders whereever they were from should not escape justice.

Ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar of Israel described the resolution's adoption as a victory for "sheer cynicism".

Douglas Griffiths of the United States said it could only exacerbate polarization and divisiveness.
The resolution's provisions included condemnation of a range of Israeli practices described as being in grave violation of the Palestinian people's civil economic and cultural rights and calls for the Human Rights High Commissioner to monitor and report on Israel's implementation of its human rights obligations in and around East Jerusalem.

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