Gaza rebuilding moving at ‘snail’s pace’

After last year’s deadly war, Israel allowed the import of building materials under United Nations supervision to make sure that the group was not the one getting them.

“The ball is in Israel’s court” in regard to the normalization of bilateral ties since Ankara is still waiting for the fulfillment of its conditions for normalization, Cavusoglu said. But it is clear to all who study the report that Israel has a great deal to answer for. In contrast, the 73 Israelis killed were mostly soldiers.

The commission will formally present its report to the UNHRC on June 29 in Geneva. They ignore the fact that it was Hamas, not Israel, that triggered the 50-day summer war with incessant rocket barrages on civilian populations in Israel.

The Palestinian Authority is expected to submit a report to the worldwide Criminal Court (ICC) today outlining details of alleged war crimes committed by the Israeli government.

However, it is vital that we look beyond and take into account the wider and more profound effect of this report, in addition to the state of affairs as it pertains to “Gaza 2014”. An ICC team will travel to Israel later this month to investigate.

While there is overlap in the three phases, phase 1 of Palestinian rejectionism was based on the destruction of Israel by war.

The ICC case is still in its early stages, but could potentially lead to indictments against Israeli officials if the court finds evidence of human rights abuses. Ban called on Israel to review “existing policies and practices” to prevent the killing and maiming of children. It adds that such use was “highly likely to constitute a violation of the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks”. Those strikes killed a total of 742 civilians. Justice McGowan Davis commented that “when the safety of an Israeli soldier is at stake, all the rules seem to be disregarded”.

“Unacceptably, the only official Israeli response to the commission’s grave findings has been to deny the allegations and pass the buck”.

Needless to say, there was not a word of remorse from Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.

“We challenge the very mechanism which created it”, John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said Tuesday, a day after the report’s publication. The Palestinian/Arab side rejected it in favour of war.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry argued on Monday that Tel Aviv had acted in accordance with global standards.

“Our goal is to prove that crimes were committed so as to convince the general prosecutor to start investigations”, Barghouthi said. “The commission that wrote it is under a committee that does everything but protect human rights”. “But the crimes of Israel and reporting on them remain”.

Hamas says such groups have also targeted it directly by bombing security posts, and has launched a crackdown against them.

The move is part of the Palestinians’ diplomatic war against Israel. But, the U.S. Secretary of State could overturn this for national security reasons, if continuing aid is deemed to assist further in Middle East Peace. Israel’s ongoing blockade, now in its ninth year, has been blamed as well as a lack of global donor support.