{"id":421,"date":"2009-04-04T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T16:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/04\/un-appoints-gaza-war-investigator\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T16:42:55","slug":"un-appoints-gaza-war-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/04\/un-appoints-gaza-war-investigator\/","title":{"rendered":"UN appoints Gaza war investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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Richard Goldstone, right, will lead the fact-finding investigation into the Gaza war [Reuters]<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The United Nations has appointed a former war crimes prosecutor to investigate offences allegedly committed by Israeli and Palestinian fighters during Israel’s war on Gaza.<\/p>\n

Richard Goldstone, a Jewish judge from South Africa, will lead a fact-finding team on the mission, ordered by the Human Rights Council in January.<\/p>\n

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“I am confident the mission will be in a position to assess, in an independent and impartial manner, all human rights and humanitarian law violations committed in the context of the Gaza conflict,” Goldstone said in a statement issued on Friday.<\/p>\n

Other members of the group are Christine Chinkin, a British professor of international law, Hina Jilani, a Pakistani lawyer and retired Irish army colonel Desmond Travers.<\/p>\n

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The investigation’s mandate is to focus only on Palestinian victims of the 22-day war.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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More than 1,100 Palestinians were killed when Israel launched a two-week ground offensive on Gaza in December and January after a week of aerial bombardment. <\/p>\n

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights put the final death toll at 1,417, including 926 civilians, and published a list of their names.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military, however, says only 295 civilians were among 1,116 Palestinians killed between December 27 and January 18, without providing a list of the dead.<\/p>\n

It insists it did everything it could to prevent casualties among Gaza civilians during the war, including dropping leaflets and sending phone messages to civilians to evacuate certain areas.<\/p>\n

The military also claims Hamas fighters used civilians as human shields, booby-trapped homes and shot at troops from densely populated areas.<\/p>\n

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Israeli officials on Friday did not say whether or not they would co-operate with the UN investigation.<\/p>\n

It has rejected previous human rights council investigations, including one led by Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, calling them “biased”.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military earlier in the week closed its own investigation into claims that Israeli troops shot unarmed Palestinian women and children during the Gaza war.<\/p>\n

Military investigators said on Monday that they “found crucial components of [the allegations] were based on hearsay and were not supported by specific personal knowledge”.<\/p>\n

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UN appoints Gaza war investigator Richard Goldstone, right, will lead the fact-finding investigation into the Gaza war [Reuters] The United Nations has appointed a former war crimes prosecutor to investigate offences allegedly committed by Israeli and Palestinian fighters during Israel’s war on Gaza. Richard Goldstone, a Jewish judge from South Africa, will lead a fact-finding team on…
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