Jerusalem, November 07: Israel has rejected a UN General Assembly resolution for an investigation into a report on the regime’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
“Israel rejects the resolution of the UN General Assembly, which is completely detached from realities on the ground that Israel must face,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
The non-binding resolution which has been commissioned by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, endorsed a report by South African Judge Richard Goldstone on committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
The report by a team of experts led by Goldstone, said Israel used disproportionate force and failed to protect civilians during its December 27 to January 18 offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza.
It also accused Hamas of infringing international conventions.
But in response to the resolution, approved by 114 countries with 18 opposed and 44 abstaining, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Yigal Palmor claimed that Israel had “demonstrated higher military and moral standards than each and every one of this resolution’s instigators,” during the war in Gaza.
He concluded that the regime “maintains the right to self-defense”, and would “continue to act to protect the lives of its citizens from the threat of international terrorism.”
—–Agencies