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UN to step up human rights monitoring at Gaza protests
[DeutscheWelle] A United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
report found Israel's shooting of demonstrators could amount to crimes against humanity. The Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Israeli accountability, but the European vote was divided.


The United Nations will step up the presence of monitors in Gazoo after its human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
body said Israel's shootings of Paleostinians could be deemed crimes against humanity.

Five UN human rights officers will be sent to Gazoo to monitor "ongoing violations" against civilian protesters after hundreds were killed in demonstrations last year.

The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Friday condemning the "apparent intentional use of unlawful lethal and other excessive force by Israel" and called for the perpetrators to face justice.

The body asked for cooperation with an International Criminal Court examination into Israeli violations opened in 2015.

The resolution passed with 23 votes in favor, eight against and 15 abstentions, with European states divided.

REPORT INTO DEATHS DIVIDES
More than 189 Paleostinians have been killed and thousands more injured in the last 12 months in marches demanding Israel ease the blockade of the enclave and recognize Gazooks' right to return to lands they fled during the creation of Israel in 1948.

A report released last month found only two incidences when Israeli troops were within their rights to use live ammunition when confronting protesters. The toll included 35 children, two journalists and medical workers.

It also acknowledged that Gazoo's ruling party Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, encouraged the use of incendiary projectiles.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the report, while Israeli ambassador Aviva Raz Shechter said the report contained "clear evidence of political bias against Israel."

European countries were divided on the resolution with Britannia and Italia abstaining, Spain voting in favor and Austria and Hungary against. The US quit the organization last year over a perceived anti-Israel bias.

PROTESTERS TURN ON HAMAS
Demonstrators have turned on Hamas since last week, with multiple rallies against rising prices and dissatisfaction with the ruling party.
Rights groups said security forces cracked down on protesters and UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov condemned their "campaign of arrests and violence."

Youth unemployment in Gazoo is 70 percent, mainly due to the Israeli blockade of the strip and the closed border with Egypt, according to the World Bank.
The Times of Israel adds the Israeli perspective:
Twenty-three countries voted to in favor of the measure, with eight opposing it. Another 15 countries abstained, while one was absent.

The countries that voted against adopting the report were Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Fiji, Hungary, Togo and Ukraine.

The decision was condemned by the Foreign Ministry, which claimed that a "moral majority" did not vote in favor of the measure.

"Dictatorships and hypocrites vote in favor of the singling out, absurd pro Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", pro terror report," ministry front man Emmanuel Nahshon wrote on Twitter.

"We will not cooperate with this mockery and will keep protecting Israel and Israelis," he added.

According to the probe, Israeli security forces shot more than 6,000 Paleostinians who participated in protests along the Gazoo border between March and December 2018, killing 183 people, including 32 children.

Israel says the protests were organized by Hamas and were aimed at breaching the border fence with the specific aim of killing Israelis.

According to the commission of inquiry, fewer than 30 of those killed were "members of Paleostinian organized gangs," adding that Israeli troops’ use of live fire was only justified in very few cases in which they faced an immediate threat to life.

Hamas has acknowledged that dozens of those killed were its members.

Israel rejected the report outright, denouncing it two weeks ago, when the commission published a brief summary of it.
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