UN votes to send international war crimes probe to Gaza
The UN Human Rights Council has decided to urgently dispatch commission of inquiry to probe all alleged Israeli war crimes in embattled Palestine.
- World
- AFP
- Published Date: 12:00 | 18 May 2018
- Modified Date: 05:28 | 18 May 2018
The UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to send a team of international war crimes investigators to probe the deadly shootings of Gaza protesters by Israeli forces.
With 29 votes in favour, two opposed and 14 abstentions, the UN's top human rights body voted through a resolution calling on the council to "urgently dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry... to investigate all alleged violations and abuses... in the context of the military assaults on large scale civilian protests that began on 30 March 2018."
- Germany's far-right AfD takes Merkel to top court over refugee policy
- 10 killed in high school shooting in Texas, governor says
- Russian military will soon receive new nuclear weapons, Putin says
- Plane carrying 104 passengers crashes after takeoff from Havana
- Erdoğan urges whole world and Muslims to unite against cruelty by Israel