The UN Human Rights Council is set to investigate the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Palestine. The vote took place on Thursday on a proposal to investigate the conflict. A majority of council forum members voted in favor of the investigation.
Qatar-based Al-Jazeera reported that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Palestinian Authority's UN envoy had brought the proposal to investigate the Israeli-Hamas conflict.The session on the proposal went on all day on Thursday. Then there is the voting. Of the 48 members of the UN Human Rights Council, 24 voted in favor and nine against. And 14 countries abstained.The resolution called for the formation of a local commission of inquiry into the Israeli-Hamas conflict. The commission will investigate and report on human rights abuses in Israel, Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet addressed the inaugural session of the council, the BBC reported. At the time, he said he was concerned about the large number of casualties in Gaza. He warns that Israel could commit war crimes.He also called Hamas' indiscriminate rocket fire at Israel a clear violation of international human rights law.
Michelle Bachelet added that she did not see any evidence that Israeli warplanes used to attack civilian buildings in Gaza. "If the attack is not proportional, it could be considered a war crime," he said. Bachelet also criticized the Gaza government for indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israel.At least 253 Palestinians were killed in an 11-day Israeli operation in Gaza that began on May 10. 66 of them are children. More than 1,900 people were injured. This information was obtained from the Ministry of Health of Gaza.
Hamas fires thousands of rockets at Israel, most of which are destroyed in mid-air by the Iron Dome. However, 12 people, including two children, were killed in the Hamas attack.Explaining the extent of the damage in Gaza, Bachelet said, "Although Israeli attacks targeted members of armed groups and their installations, they have killed and maimed large numbers of civilians. Besides, civilian installations have also been severely damaged.
The UN official pointed to the attack on government buildings, residential buildings, international aid centers, health centers and media offices in Gaza"We have not seen any evidence that Israel has claimed that many of the destroyed buildings were used by Gaza armed groups for military purposes," he said.
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