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| March 3, 2015
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Kerry Tells UN Human Rights Council They’re Obsessed With “Unbalanced Focus” on Israel

“We will oppose any group within the UN system (attempting) to regularly and arbitrarily de-legitimize Israel,” the top US diplomat warns the council in Geneva.

By i24news

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday slammed the  for what he called its “unbalanced focus” on Israel and said he would defend the latter against allegations of abuses.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prays at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on February 28, 2015 – Photo: Marc Sellem/Pool/AFP

Speaking to the Council in Geneva, Kerry also enjoined the group to probe human rights abuses in eastern portions of Ukraine by pro-Russian rebels as well as in North Korea. Continue Reading »

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| February 3, 2015
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WATCH: UN’s inquiry chief into Gaza conflict, William Schabas to resign

 

William Schabas reports that because allegations of bias due to his previous consultancy work he did for the PLO, he will resign immediately to prevent tainting the inquiry’s report.

By Reuters

 

The head of a United Nations Human Rights Commission inquiry into last summer’s conflict between Israel and Gaza said he would resign following Israeli allegations of bias due to consultancy work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

William Schabas – Screenshot

Canadian academic William Schabas was appointed last August by the head of the UN Human Rights Council to lead a three-member group looking into alleged war crimes during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| November 17, 2014
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Unable to Enter Gaza, UN Gaza Investigative Committee Hears Testimonies in Jordan

Jerusalem has forbidden entry into Gaza and the West Bank by the UN team which is seeking possible war-crime charges against Israel during the last Gaza war.

 

The United Nations committee investigating possible war crimes by Israel during last summer’s Gaza war has spent the past week in Jordan, listening to the testimonies of victims’ families and civil society organizations, Ma’an Palestinian news agency reported on Sunday.

Rubble of destroyed buildings from the 50-day conflict between Hamas and Israel.

Rubble of destroyed buildings from the 50-day conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Shejaiya, Gaza Strip, October 12 ,2014. – Photo: AFP

The committee, which was appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council, has been denied entry to the West Bank and Gaza by Israel. Continue Reading »

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| November 3, 2014
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Int’l Expert: Israel’s Children Living Near Gaza Suffer PTSD

Advisor to Human Rights Commission worries that Israeli children that are always under attack by Hamas, have come to accept war as a normal part of life.

By Israel Today Staff

 

A leading international expert on the psychological struggles facing children living in conflict and war zones recently visited southern Israel and concluded that Israeli children residing within range of the Gaza Strip face an unhealthy upbringing.

International Expert: Children in Southern Israel Suffer PTSD – Israel Today

Voices in the international community like to complain about the siege Israel has allegedly imposed upon Gaza. But Eliasz Gocal-Czerwinski, advisor to the secretary-general of the International Human Rights Commission on child affairs, described the living conditions for children in southern Israel as very much a kind of emotional siege.

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| October 30, 2014
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UN watchdog tells Israel stop building, defending & probe possible Gaza war crimes

The UN Human Rights Committee urges Israel stop violence against Palestinians, halt Jewish construction in the West Bank, stop confiscating land for settlement expansion, and take measures to withdraw all settlers (Jews) from West Bank.

By Reuters

 

GENEVA – UN human rights watchdog said Thursday that Israel should investigate all alleged violations committed by its forces during three recent wars in Gaza and ensure military commanders are brought to justice for any crimes.

Gazan children in wreckage left by IDF attacks (Photo: EPA)

Gazan children in wreckage left by IDF attacks – Photo: EPA)

A panel of independent experts urged Israel to halt construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, stop confiscating land for their expansion, prevent violence against Palestinians and take measures to withdraw all settlers. Continue Reading »

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| September 24, 2014
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Islamic Representatives at UN Say Israel Has No Moral Right to Self-Defense Against Hamas

Muslim representatives at UN Human Rights Council protested Israel’s actions in Gaza this summer, saying it can not be called self-defense.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Representatives of Muslim states participating in a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week called into question Israel’s right to militarily defend itself against Palestinian terrorism.

IDF 155m”m self-propelled Howitzer artillery piece. – courtesy

The representative from Pakistan insisted that it was “morally abhorrent” and “legally incorrect” to label Israel’s actions in Gaza this summer as self-defense. The United Arab Emirates agreed, and asserted that as an occupying power, Israel had no right to use military force in self-defense.

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| September 3, 2014
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Israel’s PM: UN needs to investigate Hamas, not IDF soldiers

 

It appears Jerusalem will not cooperate with the U.N. investigative committee probing Israel’s role in Operation Protective Edge, in light of Professor William Schabas’ comments against Israel and its PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

By Dan Lavie, Gideon Allon & Tzvi Harel

 

A week after the cease-fire that ended Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, the committee set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council to probe the conflict met for the first time to determine the nature of the investigation.

Professor William Schabas – Photo: AP

It is still unknown whether the committee, headed by Professor William Schabas, will go to Israel.

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| August 17, 2014
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Israel Not Interested in UN ‘War Crimes’ Facade

The EU & US join Jerusalem in calling the UN’s commission a biased spectacle that cannot possibly produce true justice

By Ryan Jones

 

Israel, the United States and the European Union have all dismissed a UN commission of inquiry into possible war crimes committed during the Gaza war as little more than a sideshow with a foregone conclusion.

Canadian Prof. William Schabas

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday named a three-man panel to investigate allegations of Israeli war crimes during the Jewish state’s month-long battle against Gaza’s terrorist infrastructure.

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the committee amounted to a “kangaroo court” whose findings were “predetermined.”

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| July 24, 2014
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Israel condemns and exposes the UNHRC as ‘kangaroo court’

UN council ignores Hamas’ firing rockets from hospitals & schools into Israel’s cities, but calls to probe Israeli “war crimes”.

The U.S. was the only country of 47-member states to oppose one-sided probe.

 

Israel attacked as a “travesty” a UN decision on Wednesday to probe its actions against Hamas in Gaza on the same day that the terrorist organization launched 80 rockets against it, targeting civilian areas.

OVERVIEW OF the Human Rights Council at the UNHRC – Photo: Reuters

“This investigation by a kangaroo court is a foregone conclusion,” the Prime Minister’s Office said.

The United Nations Human Rights Council ordered the probe after holding a special emergency session in Geneva on the IDF’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| July 13, 2014
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PA Official: Israel Follows Int’l Law, Palestinians Don’t

Appointed Palestinian envoy to the UN Human Rights Council says on Palestinian TV, that while all the Gaza rockets are ‘crimes against humanity’, the Israeli strikes are legal.

By Ari Soffer

 

The Palestinian Authority’s envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has said the PA has no hope of pressing charges against Israel in international courts – because Palestinian terrorist groups are far worse violators of international law themselves.

Since peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority fell apart after the PA applied for membership in international agencies, many Palestinian factions and advocates have pushed for the PA to sign the Rome Statute and press charges against Israel in the International Criminal Court at the Hague (ICC). Continue Reading »

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| June 24, 2014
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Video: Listen to Racheli Frenkel’s Speech to the UNHRC

Racheli Frenkel pleads, “It is wrong to take children and use them as an instrument in any struggle. You are responsible for human rights.”

By Tova Dvorin

 

Racheli Frenkel, the mother of kidnapped teen Naftali Frenkel (16), addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday, urging them to rally the international community to place pressure on Hamas to release the kidnapped teens. With her were Bat Galim Sha’ar and Iris Yifrah.

“I have come here today as a mother,” Frenkel said, tearfully. “Twelve days ago, my son and his friends were kidnapped on their way home from school. Continue Reading »

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| June 24, 2014
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Against Israel’s wishes, parents of missing teens’ to address UN Human Rights Council

 

Mother of Naftali Frenkel, Rachel Frenkel, will address the UN HRC tomorrow, pleading with the int’l NGO to do all it can to find the 3 kidnapped boys & bring them home safely.

By Itamar Eichner

 

Rachel Frenkel, mother of abducted teen Naftali Frenkel, has flown to Geneva to appear before the UN Human Rights Council, Ynet learned. Tomorrow, she will be joined by the families of the two other teens, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach, kidnapped by Hamas.

Rachel Frenkel, mother of Naftali Frenkel, one of the three kidnapped Israeli teens - Screenshot

Rachel Frenkel, mother of Naftali Frenkel, one of the three kidnapped Israeli teens – Screenshot

The initiative to send the families to the UN belongs to Israel’s Young Ambassadors, who are visiting Switzerland. Continue Reading »

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| March 30, 2014
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Israel’s Prime Minister Attacks UN Human Rights Council for its Moral Corruption

Prime Minister Netanyahu brands UNHRC a ‘procession of hypocrisy’.

Human Rights Council also came under fire by NGO UN Watch for whitewashing Saudi human rights abuses.

By Ari Soffer

 

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has come under fire from various quarters for ignoring and even whitewashing human rights abuses in authoritarian states while focusing almost all of its efforts on criticizing Israel.

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, PMO

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attacked what he described as a “procession of hypocrisy” after the UNHRC passed a string of resolutions condemning the Jewish state despite a wave of rights abuses elsewhere in the region. Continue Reading »

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| March 30, 2014
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Palestinians gleaming with almost unanimous UNHRC support

 

Palestinian foreign minister contends result of UNHRC’s vote on 4 resolutions condemning Israel acknowledges “indisputable right” for Palestinian independence.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

The Palestinians on Saturday welcomed the almost unanimous show of support they received at the United Nations Human Rights Council as it ended its 25th session in Geneva.

UNHRC

Four resolutions condemning Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza passed by a 46-to-1 vote. Italy, Germany and France on behalf of the European Union were among the nations that stood against Israel.

“This vote confirms the world’s clear condemnation of the systematic human rights violations committed by Israel, the occupying power, against the Palestinian people and their fundamental rights,” said Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki. Continue Reading »

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| March 29, 2014
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UN Human Rights Council exemplifies the absurdity of it’s name

 

Human Rights Council makes a mockery of it’s mandate by completely ignoring the world’s victims in its self satisfying personal agenda.

Ignoring continuing Syrian atrocities against it populace on a regular bases and the IDF providing emergency medical attention to the wounded Syrians in Israeli hospitals, the UN Human Rights Council passed with the support of 33 members Agenda Item 7, condemning ‘Israeli treatment of the Syrian population on the Golan Heights.’

By Ynetnews

 

Israel’s staunch ally, America, was the sole buffer against five resolutions which passed Friday against the Jewish State at the UN’s top human rights body. Continue Reading »

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