Why UN-mandated rebukes Israel
Israel boycotted the inquiry and barred entry to its investigators.
Israel says such measures safeguard public wellbeing and the country’s Jewish individual.
The Gaza fighting was accompanied by rare street violence within Israel between Jewish and Arab citizens.
Hamas welcomed the report and urged the prosecution of Israeli leaders in what it said were crimes against the Palestinian people.
UN-mandated rights inquiry rebukes Israel for seeking ‘complete control’
The body cannot make legally binding decisions.
The United States quit the Council in 2018 over what it described as its “chronic bias” against Israel and only fully rejoined this year.
Unusually, the three-member commission of inquiry from Australia, India and South Africa has an open-ended mandate. A diplomat said that its mandate was already a sensitive issue. “People don’t like the idea of perpetuity,” he said.
More for: “Those who want to be Palestinian can move to Gaza or Jordan,” he said.
The flag “represents the Palestinian people wherever they are,” he told Reuters.
“TRYING TO ERASE US”
Israel says the field in question is within its exclusive economic zone, not in disputed waters.
There was no immediate response from Israel to Aoun’s statement.
“We will continue to work to diversify the energy market and maintain stability and reliability,” she said.
“EXTREMELY DANGEROUS”
The company said it planned to bring it online in the third quarter.
