After a seven hour emergency session, the UNHRC voted overwhelmingly to establish independent Commission of Inquiry into Israel’s ongoing ground offensive in Gaza and accusations of war crimes.
The UN’s top human rights official has warned that Israel may have committed war crimes during its ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
When the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Hamas of using “telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause”, he overlooked an element of the conflict that could not be skewed for the viewing public: the damage to Gaza’s infrastructure.
A woman who lives in Gaza explains the horrors of living under constant bombardment from Israeli forces.
The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza after a bloody weekend that saw the casualties of the conflict pass 500, with over 80,000 people displaced.