T. Belman. I could point out many things but will content myself with just a few. UNCHR could simply have endorsed the Report. Instead it made certain to frame the Report by repeating many falsehoods, which are now believed by many due to the constant repeating. So it stresses that the FGC applies to the “Palestinian Occupied Territories and East Jerusalem”. Notice the capitalization. They are embedding this concept in the minds of the world. Similarly, there is no binding law which holds that the FGC applies to these lands. The Levy Report holds otherwise.
It emphasizes humanitarian law but is silent on the established Rules of War that Israel abides by. It stresses all Israel damning reports whether proved or not and is silent on the reports and evidence Israel and certain NGO’s presented to them to counter.
What the UN and various NGO’s want to accomplish is to change the law of self defense by prohibiting the killing of civilians, no matter what. Rather than fight back as present rules allow for, they want to outlaw Israel fighting back and in effect are saying that Israel should retreat of capitulate to demands rather than fight back. They are saying that the mere fact that so many civilians (with distorted numbers) have been killed by Israel, is proof Israel is guilty of a war crimes.
I could go on.
The following is the the full text of the UNHRC inquiry into human rights violations during last summer’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the relevant rules and principles of international law, including international humanitarian law and human rights law, in particular the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, which is applicable to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the other human rights covenants, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Recalling further its relevant resolutions, including resolutions S-9/1 of 12 January 2009 and S-21/1 of 23 July 2014, and the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict,
Expressing its appreciation to the independent commission of inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict for its comprehensive report,
Affirming the obligation of all parties to respect international humanitarian law and international human rights law,
Emphasizing the importance of the safety and well-being of all civilians, reaffirming the obligation to ensure the protection of civilians in armed conflict, and deploring the civilian deaths that resulted from the conflict in and around the Gaza Strip in July and August 2014, including the killing of 1,462 Palestinian civilians, including 551 children and 299 women, and six Israeli civilians,
Gravely concerned by reports regarding serious human rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law, including possible war crimes, including the findings of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, of the independent commission of inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict, and of the boards of inquiry convened by the Secretary-General,
Condemning all violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law, and appalled at the widespread and unprecedented levels of destruction, death and human suffering caused,
Stressing the urgency of achieving without delay an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967,
Deploring the non-cooperation by Israel with the independent commission of inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict and the refusal to grant access to or to cooperate with international human rights bodies seeking to investigate alleged violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
Regretting the lack of implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which follows a pattern of lack of implementation of recommendations made by United Nations mechanisms and bodies,
Alarmed that long-standing systemic impunity for international law violations has allowed for the recurrence of grave violations without consequence, and stressing the need to ensure accountability for all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in order to end impunity, ensure justice, deter further violations, protect civilians and promote peace,
Emphasizing the need for States to investigate grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 to end impunity, uphold their obligations to ensure respect, and promote international accountability,
Noting the accession by Palestine to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 2 January 2015,
1. Welcomes the report of the independent commission of inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict;2
2. Calls upon all duty bearers and United Nations bodies to pursue the implementation of all recommendations contained in the report of the commission of inquiry, in accordance with their respective mandates;
3. Notes the importance of the work of the commission of inquiry and of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict of 2009 and the information collected regarding grave violations in support of future accountability efforts, in particular, information on alleged perpetrators of violations of international law;
4. Emphasizes the need to ensure that all those responsible for violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law are held to account through appropriate fair and independent domestic or international criminal justice mechanisms, and to ensure the provision of effective remedy to all victims, including reparations, and stresses the need to pursue practical steps towards these goals;
5. Calls upon the parties concerned to cooperate fully with the preliminary examination of the International Criminal Court and with any subsequent investigation that may be opened;
6. Calls upon all States to promote compliance with human rights obligations and all High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to respect, and to ensure respect for, international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, in accordance with article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions, and to fulfil their obligations under articles 146, 147 and 148 of the said Convention with regard to penal sanctions, grave breaches and the responsibilities of the High Contracting Parties;
7. Recommends that the General Assembly remain apprised of the matter until it is satisfied that appropriate action with regard to implementing the recommendations made by the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict in its report has been or is being taken appropriately at the domestic or international levels to ensure justice for victims and accountability for perpetrators;
8. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present, as part of the reporting requested by the Human Rights Council in its resolutions S-9/1 and S-12/1, a report on the implementation of the present resolution, as well as on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the reports of the independent commission of inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict and of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, to the Council at its thirty-first session;
9. Decides to remain seized of the matter.
Wrong, they will not hold themselves accountable to any such rules…. only the jews must jump through the circus hoops like circus dogs. and indeed the jews are jumping through the hoops: allowing soldiers to die to keep alive those who send their toddlers to jew killing summer camps. All done to impress those who will continue to demand more and more until the frog is boiled in the pot. The Jews are blind to engage these fake narratives rather than see the despicable creatures behind it. The time is past for discussion of all these transparent attempts to swindle and kill the Jews. The Jews must stop trying to reason with the lunatics and instead attack them and seek to destroy them with any weapon available: Lawfare, hacking, sending honor killers to europe, random muggings resulting in the deaths of the perps, lots of dirty tricks…..and some unmentionables in the public domain.
Now you got it right, the rest is window dressing.
Evil and disease must be destroyed, not reasoned with.
All diplomacy, hasbara and lawfare should be geared to destroying enemies rather than convincing them. Dirty tricks should be the MO.
I do not read the clauses anymore because it is irrelevant and subordinate to the war they are waging against the Jews. The clauses are tactics in the war, not arguments to be reasoned with. They know that their arguments and clauses are lies and libels; their BDS churches know, their govs know, the bought media know, the jewish and israeli kapos know…… that they are telling lies to destroy israel and the jews
Only the Jews are unaware that they are intentionally telling lies because that truth is too difficult to believe. This was the same realization that those on the trains to dachau, from the the most liberal nation in europe to which jews flocked, finally came to accept too late.
We jump through hoops, we engage them in futile argument and reason, as opposed to devising the plans and strategies for the destruction of enemies. Jews must wake up, see the enemies, accept facts, devise and implement strategies of war for survival.
But first we have to define what the word “civilian” means. Does it mean an unarmed person merely going about his or her business, or does it mean a fully-armed person in civilian clothes, determined to kill.