United Nations rights body backs call for accountability in Gaza war

In particular, it called on “the parties concerned to cooperate fully with the preliminary examination of the worldwide Criminal Court and with any subsequent investigation that may be opened”.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while underlining that the Commission of Inquiry’s report tries to artificially strike a balance between the violations committed by the occupying Power and the occupied people, insisted however that the State of Palestine will shoulder its responsibilities to ensure compliance with worldwide law“, said the release.

“In the past also, whenever a Human Rights Council resolution made a direct reference to the ICC, as happened in the Resolutions on Syria and North Korea, our general approach had been to abstain”.

India was one of 5 nation that abstained.

But on at least two occasions, India had voted in favour of UNHRC resolutions criticising the Syrian government even though they directly referred to the ICC, documents studied by The Telegraph show. “The goal of this worldwide campaign against Israel is to question the democratic country’s right to self-defense to the point of rendering it virtually meaningless”, he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may tag along a short tour to Ramallah with his proposed visit to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv later this year in order to scotch speculation about New Delhi’s departure from its policy of supporting the Palestinian cause in the wake of India’s growing ties with Israel.

Other critics of the resolution argued that it ignored criticism of the Palestinian side raised in an earlier United Nations Report, which accused both sides in the conflict of committing war crimes.

41 countries voted in favour of the resolution with only Israel’s ally United States voting against.

But Hamas eventually allowed the group back in and the crated cubs and their entourage were able to check into a hotel in Gaza until the Israeli crossing reopens on Sunday.

India, along with Ethiopia, Kenya, Macedonia and Paraguay, abstained from voting.

The 2014 conflict stemmed from Israel’s response to Hamas sympathizers launching rockets from Palestinian territories into the country.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said she had no information on the arrests, which took place two days after Israel said it had rounded up 40 Hamas men in the West Bank in recent months, accusing them of planning attacks on Israel.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – A pair of lion cubs are stuck at a Gaza-Israel border crossing en route to a Jordan animal sanctuary, after being kept for a year by a family in crowded Gaza.

He said the report indicated that 2,251 Palestinians were killed between June and August of 2014, and half of them were civilians.

“The extent of the devastation and human suffering in Gaza was unprecedented and will impact generations to come” said the commission’s American chairwoman, Justice Mary McGowan Davis.