PM Netanyahu slammed the UN Human Rights Council's decision to open an investigation into Israel's alleged human rights violations in the Gaza Strip. "It's a travesty of justice; it's a travesty of fairness; it's a travesty of common sense; it's a travesty of truth," the prime minister told visiting British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. Netanyahu told Hammond how Hamas terrorists were firing rockets from schools, mosques, hospitals and heavily civilian populations, calling it a double war crime. "This use of human shields is extraordinarily sinister. It's grotesque. It's inhuman. But what is equally grotesque is that Israel was condemned in the Human Rights Council," he said. While Israel was doing its best to minimize civilian casualties, "we cannot give our attackers immunity or impunity. We seek as best as we can to target them, but all the civilian deaths that are there – and we regret each one of them – are the responsibility of the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terrorists who are in league with them," Netanyahu said. Hammond stressed the need to bring the current conflict in Gaza to a quick end, laying the blame on Hamas. "Britain has been very clear, I have been very clear, Prime Minister Cameron has been very clear, that this current cycle of violence was triggered by Hamas firing hundreds of rockets at Israeli towns and cities indiscriminately and in breach of international humanitarian law," he said. (Ynet)
No comments:
Post a Comment