Israel security forces should face justice for Gaza killings: U.N.
GENEVA/JERUSALEM - United Nations investigators said on Thursday Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in killing 189 Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 at weekly protests in Gaza last year.
“The Israeli security forces killed and maimed Palestinian demonstrators who did not pose an imminent threat of death or serious injury to others when they were shot, nor were they directly participating in hostilities,” it said. “The International Criminal Court should act immediately and open a probe into the crimes conducted ,” he said in a statement.
The latest report, covering the period from March 30-December 31 2018, to the U.N. Human Rights Council was based on hundreds of interviews with victims and witnesses, as well as medical records, video and drone footage, and photographs.U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet should share their findings with the ICC, the investigators said in the report.
“Our investigation found that the demonstrators were overwhelmingly unarmed even if they were not at all times peaceful,” he told a news briefing. “We found that one person, a double amputee, was shot and killed as he sat in his wheelchair. On two separate days, two people visibly walking on crutches, were shot in the head. They were killed,” she added.Israel says its forces have at times come under gun or grenade attacks during the protests.
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