Above: UN Human Rights Council’s inquiry into the IDF’s “assault” on “civilian” Gaza protesters. On March 18th, their report will accuse Israel of “crimes against humanity.”
GENEVA, March 5 – The UN’s 47-nation Human Rights Council is planning to launch an unprecedented assault against Israel on March 18th, when the Jewish state will be singled out for an entire day—a pariah treatment meted out to no other nation—as the council presents seven separate reports alleging Israeli war crimes. (See below on UN Watch’s response and protest rally.)
The March 18th assault will culminate in five biased resolutions condemning Israel, the drafts of which have been obtained by UN Watch. Iran, North Korea and Syria will get only one resolution each, while there will be none on Turkey, Zimbabwe, China, Pakistan and other oppressive regimes.
An early version of one of the reports was released at a surprise press conference on Thursday, when the UNHRC’s commission of inquiry into Israel’s “assault” on “civilian protests” on the Gaza border accused Israel of “crimes against humanity.”
Meanwhile, the office of UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet launched a social media blitzkrieg against Israel to support the inquiry’s war crimes allegations, calling into question the commissioners’ independence from the notoriously anti-Israeli UN rights office (OHCHR), which in 2009 orchestrated the infamous Goldstone Report.
Significantly, the new Gaza inquiry’s report calls on countries around the world to “arrest persons alleged to have committed the international crimes” — in other words, Israeli soldiers and commanders — and to subject them to “individual sanctions” including “a travel ban or an assets freeze.”
The report further calls for the UN rights chief to “manage the dossiers on the alleged [Israeli] perpetrators,” to be provided to national and international tribunals, “including the International Criminal Court.”
IDF soldiers “intentionally shot children, they intentionally shot people with disabilities, they intentionally shot journalists,” said commissioner Sara Hossain of Bangladesh.
UN Watch, which submitted a series of detailed submissions of fact and law to the inquiry, expressed grave disappointment that these were entirely ignored by the UN, and released its initial response to the report, which gives a free pass to Hamas terrorists.
