| Israel slams UN rights report on Gaza Date: 3/24/2009 11:58:00 AM | |
investigator which said its three-week war on the Gaza Strip was possibly a war crime. "Unfortunately this is a further example of the very one-sided, unbalanced and unfair attitude of the (UN) Human Rights Council," government spokesman Mark Regev told AFP. "This sort of report does the service of human rights no good whatsoever," he said. "It's a politicisation of human rights." The UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, said in a report on Monday that there was "reason" to conclude that Israel's massive military offensive on Gaza in December and January was a war crime. Falk said that in order to determine if the war was legal, it was necessary to assess if the Israeli forces could differentiate between civilian and military targets in Gaza. "If it is not possible to do so, then launching the attacks is inherently unlawful, and would seem to constitute a war crime of the greatest magnitude under international law," Falk wrote in the report. "On the basis of the preliminary evidence available, there is reason to reach this conclusion," he added, pointing out that attacks were targeted at densely populated areas. The 22-day war killed more than 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis and left swathes of the impoverished Hamas-run territory in ruins. Regev said the Human Rights Council "has been criticised for its negative Israel fixation by two UN secretary generals, Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon." Israel's staunch ally the United States also lambasted the report, saying Falk was "biased." "Look, we've expressed our concern many times about the special rapporteur's views on dealing with that question," State Department spokesman Robert Wood told a press briefing. "We've found the rapporteur's views to be anything but fair. We find them to be biased. We've made that very clear." Falk had focused his report on the legal issues arising from the war, as he had been unable to enter Gaza to assess the human rights situation on the ground. He attempted a mission in December -- before Israel launched its 22-day offensive -- but was detained by the Israelis and then expelled, with the foreign ministry accusing him of "legitimising Hamas terrorism". "Such a refusal to cooperate with a United Nations representative, not to mention the somewhat humiliating treatement accorded has set an unfortunate precedent with respect to the treatement of a representative of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and more generally of the United Nations itself," Falk wrote. Falk has been highly critical of Israel's policies against the Palestinians, saying in December that they amounted to a crime against humanity. Falk in January also charged that Israel's military operations in Gaza raised the "spectre of systematic war crimes" and needed to be investigated. Israel launched its war in retaliation for persistent rocket fire by militants in Gaza. It ended after Hamas and Israeli each declared ceasefires on January 18 but sporadic violence has continued since and Egyptian-brokered efforts to forge a more sustainable truce have yet to succeed. |
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