Posted on 07/23/2014 2:47:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Navi Pillay said Tel Aviv's two-week onslaught on Gaza - which has cost more than 650 Palestinians lives - would be thoroughly investigated.
Ms Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the attacks have destroyed houses and hospitals and killed civilians.
"These are just a few examples where there seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.
"Every one of these incidents must be properly and independently investigated."
According to Gaza officials, 475 houses have been destroyed and 2,644 damaged, while 46 schools, 56 mosques and seven hospitals have been struck.
Ms Pillay, who spoke at an emergency debate on the crisis at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, also criticised Hamas for indiscriminate rocket and mortar attacks.
The one-day session was convened at the request of the Palestinians and Egypt, but significantly, boycotted by Israel, which accuses the council of bias.
The move came as the conflict raging on, with 49 Palestinians killed in the space of 24 hours.
Many of the deaths were recorded in Khan Younis, the south Gaza town which has borne the brunt of Israel's land offensive.
Meanwhile Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said he was ready to accept a humanitarian truce in Gaza.
However, he said where the Islamist group would not agree to a full ceasefire until the terms had been negotiated.
He said: "Everyone wanted us to accept a ceasefire and then negotiate for our rights, we reject this and we reject it again today."
He added that Hamas "will not close the door" to a humanitarian truce if Israel ended its bombardment of Gaza.
US Secretary of State John Kerry also held talks in Tel Aviv today about a strategy to end the conflict sparked by the murder of three Israeli youths and one Palestinian.
Ahead of his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, he said: "We have certainly made some steps forward.
"There is still work to be done.
'We are doing this for one simple reason.
"The people in the Palestinian territories, the people in Israel, are all living under the threat or reality of immediate violence. And this need to end for everybody."
Elsewhere today, several major American and European airlines suspended flights to Israel after a militant rocket struck a house near the airport.
The companies which acted included Britain's Easyjet, German firm Lufthansa, Dutch airline KLM and Air France, together with US Airways, United and Delta from America.
Israel, which has lost 29 troops and three civilians in the fighting, claims its offensive is designed to stop Hamas tunnelling across the border in search of hostages.
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said: "Israel is acting according to international law.
"It is acting against terrorism.
"It is regrettable civilians are killed, but when we call on them to vacate and Hamas calls on them to stay, then that is what happens."
I remember an episode of South Park where Eric Cartman said it best..if your going to kill someone, make sure its someone of your own race..blacks killing blacks in Chicago, not a peep from the media..Muslims killing Christians in Iraq, a TRUE Holocaust is taking place over there, not a peep from the media..Boko Haram BUTCHERING children, men, women, babies, burning them alive, not a peep from the media..but the second Israel dare to defend itself, all you hear is the typical leftist outrage..because the media in this country DESPISES ISRAEL..period..I saw it in 2006 when Israel defended itself against Hezbollah in Lebanon, that CNN accused Israel of murdering women and children..I figured out the media THEN..Ive said it once and I will say it again, the Nazi Movement is alive and well, but instead of them wearing white sheets, they are wearing Burqa’s, and wearing suits and ties
It would be a great day if EVERY mosque were to be struck. They are usually armories, and always incubators of hate. Consider: When the Islamists have the upper hand, they deface and destroy churches, synagogues, and even ancient monuments.
Navi Pillay... UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the attacks have destroyed houses and hospitals and killed civilians.You want to give that office some credibility, dimbulb? Make the use of human shields a war crime. Otherwise, STFU.
The UN should be put on trial for crimes against decency.
Ding, ding, ding ... we have a thread winnah!
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Israel stands alone, I fear. I wish there were something that the American people who support Israel could help in some significant way.
Israelis and Arabs are the same race (Caucasian) and the same sub-division of race - Semitic. Why, I’m pretty sure many of the “Palestinians” have Judaic blood to some extent as well.
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