EU Calls on Israel to Cooperate with Gaza Probe

The European Union (EU) joined Palestinian and other Arab delegations on Monday in calling on Israel to allow a UN human rights investigator to visit Gaza, Reuters reported.

 

The call came in a debate in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) which both the United States and Israel did not attend.

 

Israel has not cooperated with the UN’s special rapporteur Makarim Wibisono, who presented his first report to the UNHRC based on interviews with people in Amman and Cairo, or witnesses on video calls in Gaza.

 

His report urged Israel to investigate the deaths of more than 1,500 Gazan civilians, one third of them children, during the 2014 Gaza war.

 

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