Geneva – Israel may have committed war crimes by killing civilians and shelling houses and hospitals during its two-week-old offensive in the Gaza Strip, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday.
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Pillay, opening an emergency debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, also condemned the indiscriminate firing of rockets and mortars by Palestinian militants into Israel.
Citing cases Israeli air strikes and shelling hitting houses and hospitals in the coastal enclave, she said: “These are just a few examples where there seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes. “Every one of these incidents must be properly and independently investigated,” Pillay said in some of her strongest comments on the conflict.
The Geneva rights forum convened the special one-day session at the request of the Palestinians, Egypt and Pakistan. [ID:nL6N0PX5G8]
Israel, which accuses the Council of bias, boycotted the Geneva forum for 20 months, resuming cooperation in October. Its main ally the United States, a member state, has also said Israel is unfairly singled out.
And I thought only Turks are stupid, I see it’s not so.
What is she Pakistani or Indian?
I like what this idiot calls herself “U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights”, whose rights? You are anticemitic bigot!
The only crime Israel is committing is leading their soldiers into dangerous close quarter combat.
Send your warnings, then flatten the place. Mission accomplished. Any “civilian” deaths will be considered suicide.
Blah blah blah think before you talk!!!
So no issue with Hamas using human shields or keeping rockets and launchers in schools, mosques and hospitals. Or in residential houses. Those are not human rights violations.
How about the UN actually handing over rockets to terrorists? Is that going to be individually investigated? You know the rockets in a UN school?
The UN is nothing less than a terrorist organization itself. A human rights violation itself.
This is so ludicrous I don’t know why you post it. But in case any anti-Zionist/anti-semitic left wingers lurk here or actually agree with this, let me remind you….Hamas INDISCRIMINATELY targets residential areas with LITERALLY thousands of lethal rockets. They aren’t sending slingshots to our cities. Now I suggest VIN pulls this garbage as we all know where the UN stands – and it is NEVER with Israel.
What a racket – we are violating human rights?
SHUT UP
In baseball you hit where they ain’t. In war you fight them where they are. The same Geneva conventions that say don’t bomb a hospital, say don’t hole up in a hospital to fight. These are pitiful excuses for human beings, the UN, and they have never represented human rights.
Tnx for sharing your opinion… Israel really cares what you have to say.
Every time this cholera opens her mouth she commits a crime against humanity
We could speak ur talk before your investigation, save your money.
WE DONT CARE!!!!
This little bubba and Wanky Moon think they run the world. Real Alice in Wonderland time!
She is right, you know. By “targetting” anything, the Israelis are committing a terrible crime. They should do like the Palestinian Nazis are doing; fire indiscrimanately into populated cities. Never mind if the buildings are occupied or not. Just bomb them and then bomb them again. This is what the UN would call “porportional force”, I suppose.
Her face is a crime against humanity.
Aren’t they just defending themselves??? Hint Isreal DEFENSE Force.
I’m sure she’ll appoint the Arabs including Hamas to investigate whether Israel is committing war crimes!
It’s not a war crime to shoot missiles at Israeli towns?
You ugly NE’VAILA, over 150,000 dead in Syria and thousands in Iraq on top of thousands in Libya and that’s just scratching the surface vis a vis killings in the arab world, yet not a word from your filthy mouth, only when Israel, who wants to protect its people from hamas rockets defends itself and 500 gazans are killed, thanks to hamas you dare open your vile mouth.
‘Vaer faarbrent di faarsholtana machashaifa’!
Trouble is that this makes big headlines on the TV and radio news all over the world, I just heard it in Australia on the radio as I am typing this, and is where the Goyim are getting their information about what’s happening and think it is the truth; no wonder there is a spike in anti-semitism all over the world.
You are as anti-semitic as you are ugly!
Yes, jews commit war crimes by defending yourself. They should get killed quetly without complaining.
Bibi is making mistake trying to limit arab casualties. Because of this “humanity”
more jews are getting killed.
Change the strategy, protect Israelis not arab population!!!!!!
Even according to her way of thinking, לשיטתה, she is wrong:
If returning fire at a hospital where militants are firing from and killing civilians in the process is a war crime;
And if shooting at civilians in Israeli cities is also a war crime;
Then wouldn’t it make sense to shoot at the hospital to protect your own citizens – and be guilty of war crimes, rather than have the enemy shoot at (and kill ח״ו your civilians) – and have them be guilty of war crimes?
Better alive and guilty than dead and innocent.
The world is still just very uncomfortable with Jews giving a good licking to Gentiles. It doesn’t sit right by them. It’s about time we set them straight, I think….eh?
lol and hiding rockets in a u.n.building and giving them back to hamas twice is not a criminal act
Hey Everyone–Jews have no rights!!!! Don’t you know that already?!?!?! Our children in schools and day cares have no rights? The Thai worker who was killed, had no rights? According to them, I guess not.