Israel furious as UN Human Rights Council unveils Gaza probe team
Israel lashed out on Tuesday after the UN Human Rights Council named the man who will be running an inquiry into its Gaza offensive.
Canadian international lawyer William Schabas, who will head the commission, is widely regarded in Israel as being hostile to the Jewish state over reported calls to bring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court.
“This commission’s anti-Israeli conclusions have already been written, all it needs is a signature,” railed foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.
“For this commission the important thing is not human rights but the rights of terrorist organisations like Hamas,” he told AFP.
But in a series of interviews with the Israeli media, Schabas defended himself against allegations of bias against the Jewish state.
“I’ve frequently lectured in Israel, at universities in Israel, I’m a member of the editorial board of the Israel law review, I wouldn’t do those things if I was anti-Israel,” he told public radio.
He challenged Palmor’s assertion that the commission’s findings were a foregone conclusion.
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