Former Head Of UN Rights Council To Lead Open-Ended Probe Of Israel

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Former United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay will lead the UN’s unprecedented open-ended inquiry into “systematic” abuses in Israel and the Palestinian territories, it was announced on Thursday.

The president of the UN Human Rights Council said Pillay would lead a three-person investigation, intended to scrutinize alleged abuses and their “root causes” in the decades-long Middle East conflict.

The probe was triggered during a special session of the council on May 27 — following fighting between Israel and Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip — when the UN Human Rights Council decided to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate “all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law” in Israel, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

A commission of inquiry (COI) is the highest-level investigation that can be ordered by the Human Rights Council. The probe is the first such COI with an “ongoing” mandate.

The establishment of the commission was rejected at the time by Israel, which said it would not cooperate with such a probe. The Foreign Ministry said the move “completely ignores the 4,300 rockets toward Israeli citizens” fired from Gaza during the 11-day military conflict in May. It called the decision a “moral stain on the international community and the UN.”

Read more at Times of Israel.

{Matzav.com}


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