UN Gaza war probe to also investigate Palestinian human rights violations

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s probe into the Gaza war will look beyond alleged Israeli human rights violations and also examine those supposedly committed by armed Palestinian groups.

 

The commission of inquiry’s new chairwoman Mary McGowan Davis publicly clarified the matter on Monday.

 

The commission was tasked with investigating human rights violations that occurred in Gaza, east Jerusalem and the West Bank from June 13, 2014 until the end of Operation Protective Edge.

 

But it was assumed that the probe’s overwhelming focus would be on Israeli actions, as in past UNHRC reports.

 

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