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| May 19, 2018
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With a 64% majority, the automatic anti-Israel states turned UNHRC irrelevant

Despite the disappointment of abandonment from countries friendly to Israel at the UN Human Rights Council, some impressive diplomatic achievements were noted.
– WATCH: Col. Richard Kemp delivers statement to UN Human Rights Council Special Session on Gaza (May 18, 2018)

By Itamar Eichner

 

Even though Israel didn’t officially announce it will not cooperate with the investigation of the UN Human Rights Council into the deaths of protesters in Gaza, it is highly unlikey Jerusalem would agree to take part.

While 29 (64%) countries voted on Friday in favor of a commission of inquiry, 14 abstained and only two opposed—Israel considers the mandate the UNHRC gave itself to be entirely draconian, and claims it has already set its goal: to investigate the wrongs perpetrated against Palestinian civilians who held protests in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the violation of international law, to the point of committing war crimes.

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| April 3, 2017
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Human Rights Watch levels ultimatum to Israel over Gaza war-crimes investigation

 

HRW, known for its anti-Israel bias, accuses Israel of preventing its researchers for accessing Gaza and Egypt of preventing HRW representatives entry since 2008.

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Human Rights Watch demanded on Monday that Israel allow its investigators into Gaza if it wants the International Criminal Court “to take seriously” Israel’s own war crimes investigations.

The ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (photographed above/Wikimedia) started a preliminary examination of 2014 Gaza war crimes allegations in January 2015.

HRW accuses Israel in a 47-page report of preventing its researchers for accessing Gaza. It has also accused Egypt of preventing HRW visits to the coastal territory since 2008. Continue Reading »

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| June 20, 2016
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US Congress opens investigation of UNRWA schools for inciting terrorism

 

view videoVIEW VIDEO: US Congressmen to begin investigating incitement to terrorism against Jews in the UNRWA schools, as demonstrated in film by the Center for Near East Policy Research.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

 

Members of the US House of Representatives are going to begin investigating incitement to terrorism in the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools using material provided by a Jerusalem based research center, its director told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

A Palestinian refugee knocks on the closed gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters with his walking stick. – Photo: REUTERS

“Congress is going to begin an official investigation of UNRWA using some of our material to look at creating new standards for the organization,” said David Bedein, director of the Jerusalem based Center for Near East Policy Research. Continue Reading »

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