UN head says Gazans ‘caged in a toxic slum from birth to death’ as human rights council votes to investigate Israel

The United Nations hightest human rights group voted Friday in Geneva to investigate Israel for human rights violations in “the military assaults on the large-scale civilian protests that began on 30 March 2018” in the Gaza Strip, after convening a special session.

The the United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC) passed the resolution with 29 votes in favor and 14 abstentions. The U.S. and Australia alone voted against it.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley criticized the council after the meeting, defending Israel for engaging in “legitimate defense of its own border against terrorist attacks.”

“It is another shameful day for human rights,” Haley said.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Aviva Raz Shechter lambasted the decision, stating while “Israel deeply regrets any civilian loss of life,” the responsibility for the death of demonstrators who were shot by Israeli forces “can only be attributed to Hamas’s cynical exploitation of its own population, in a violent campaign against Israel.”

“Israel unilaterally disengage from Gaza in summer 2005. There is no occupation in Gaza. It is a myth,” she said, referring to the protest on Monday as a “riot.”

Shechter mocked the notion that Palestinians were hosting a “peaceful protests”.

“By supporting the convening of this session they unwisely embolden the Hamas terror organization. There is nothing peaceful in Molotov cocktails, explosive devices and meat-cleavers,” Shechter said, adding criticism for the Ramallah based Palestinian Authority. In 2007 the Palestinian Authority and Hamas divided their governments between the West Bank and Gaza, although there has been numerous failed attempts at reconciliation in recent years.

Shechter accused the Palestinian Authority of “willingly taking part in the implementation of Hamas’s strategy,” which was outlined as to “Blame Israel. Complain to the UN.”

Traditionally UNHRC considers independent inquires into human rights violations only after a member nation has exhausted a domestic investigation.

“This unnecessary resolution should have been avoided, because of the credibility of Israel’s robust investigative mechanisms, and its steadfast respect of IHL [International Humanitarian Law],” Shechter said.

After the vote, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said over social media, “the Human Rights Council again proved that it is a hypocritical and biased body that aims to harm Israel and to back up terror.”

On Thursday Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman called to “immediately” pull out of the UN rights group, “Israel is under double attack. A terrorist attack from Gaza and a hypocrisy attack headed by the UN Human Rights Council.”


Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations human rights head, endorsed the resolution to investigate. “The stark contrast in casualties on both sides is also suggestive of a wholly disproportionate response,” continuing, “on the Israeli side, one soldier was reportedly wounded, slightly, by a stone.”

Al Hussein told the council Israel is failing to meet it’s obligation under international law to protect Palestinians in Gaza. “They are, in essence, caged in a toxic slum from birth to death; deprived of dignity; de-humanized by the Israeli authorities to such a point it appears officials do not even consider that these men and women have a right, as well as every reason, to protest,” he said.

“Israel and its defenders have given the impression that Palestine occupies Israel. How long will this joke continue?” said the Palestinian rep to the UN Ibrahim Khraishi, “We have said we want peace and the world agrees with us that there should be a two-state solution. But Israel refuses that.”

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Will the US and Israel try to sabotage this investigation? Chances are high they will, and succeed it doing so. It was disgusting to see this woman from the New York Times, Bari Weiss, on the Bill Maher show, blame it all on Hamas, and say it was they who sent women and children to die like that. Not one negative word about the zionists, the occupation, and the land theft, and she even stated it was not about Jerusalem. There was no empathy for the Palestinians at all, and for the lives lost. She did not criticize Israel for using live ammunition on civilians, nor did she criticize them for killing these poor people as they simply walked and prayed, and no immediate threat to the well armed and trained IDF. The NYT sure has a few staunch zionists as journalists, who are so biased, so pro Israel, they don’t bother to hide it.

Of course, the Head of Human Rights will be attacked, because he is a Muslim, but then apologists should realize that the US has always protected, supported, and armed them, and this time too Israel will get away with brutally, and violently, killing civilians.

PDF]Challenges to international humanitarian law: Israel’s occupation policy
https://www.icrc.org/en/download/file/13671/irrc-888-maurer.pdf

“This unnecessary resolution should have been avoided, because of the credibility of Israel’s robust investigative mechanisms, and its steadfast respect of IHL [International Humanitarian Law],” Shechter said.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley criticized the council after the meeting, defending Israel for engaging in “legitimate defense of its own border against terrorist attacks.”

“It is another shameful day for human rights,” Haley said.

Clearly Ms. Haley has been thoroughly stripped of her identity as a woman of color and former member of a minority religious faith persecuted in her homeland. It would seem she got the Stepford Wive’s treatment somewhere in her life and has been completely scrubbed clean of her humanity and empathy.

Every single day the zionist state is allowed to continue their present course is not only a shameful day for human rights, but a shameful day for humanity as a whole.

Matthew 23:13-28
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.”

It would be interesting to see if mw had the reporting chops to list the current members on the unhrc. What a joke.

Young Gazan father immolates himself in protest agains HAMAS!

Gutless UN toadies should investigate the real misery purveyors in Gaza, Hamas.

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5265746,00.html

Curse Hamas and their Western ‘useful idiots’, beginning with Mondoweiss.