shrubnose
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The UN has said that Israel may have committed war crimes in its offensive against Hamas in Gaza, in which hundreds of Palestinian civilians have been killed in the last two weeks, and voted with only one abstention to launch an international inquiry.
"There seems to be a strong possibility that international law has been violated in a manner that could amount to war crimes,"Navi Pillay the UN high commissioner for human rights said in Geneva.
Read more here: Israel may have committed war crimes during Gaza offensive, UN says | World news | The Guardian
I don't feel qualified to judge whether war crimes have been committed, but I do think that it's a possibility which should be checked out.
"There seems to be a strong possibility that international law has been violated in a manner that could amount to war crimes,"Navi Pillay the UN high commissioner for human rights said in Geneva.
Read more here: Israel may have committed war crimes during Gaza offensive, UN says | World news | The Guardian
I don't feel qualified to judge whether war crimes have been committed, but I do think that it's a possibility which should be checked out.