{"id":49861,"date":"2014-11-17T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=49861"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:29:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:29:31","slug":"israel-refuses-to-cooperate-with-un-gaza-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/11\/israel-refuses-to-cooperate-with-un-gaza-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Refuses to Cooperate with UN Gaza Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Israel declared\u00a0that it would not participate with the U.N. investigation team\u00a0as it makes its inquiry into\u00a0Israel\u2019s 50-day war on Gaza. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An Israeli spokesperson Wednesay [12 Nov 2014] declared that Israel will not participate in the<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/UN-Names-Panel-to-Probe-War-Crimes-in-Gaza-20140811-0049.html\" > U.N.\u00a0inquiry into its 50-day attack on Gaza<\/a><\/strong> last summer. Netanyahu\u00a0refused to allow the investigative team to cross Israeli\u00a0borders. The team had arrived in Amman, Jordan and was originally planning to travel through Israel to reach the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson, Emmanuel Nachshon said in a statement, &#8220;Since the Schabas commission is not an inquiry but a commission that gives its conclusions in advance, Israel will not cooperate with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights over the last conflict with Hamas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Hamas launched thousands of rockets at Israel, the UN\u2019s Human Rights Council made a decision stating Israel\u2019s guilt in advance and set up a probe as a rubber stamp for its known positions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>William Schabas, a Canadian lawyer, in August was named as the chair of the U.N. commission to investigate \u201cOperation Protective Edge,\u201d\u00a0the Israeli assault on Gaza. He is reported to have recommended to bring Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli president Shimon Peres to be put on trial before the International Criminal Court. In 2010 he\u00a0was published in a law journal saying that Netanyahu was \u201cthe single individual most likely to threaten the survival of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Operation Protective Edge killed over 2,100 Gazans in nearly two months, the vast majority of whom were civilians. The Israeli assault also left 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza displaced and homeless.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Israel-Refuses-to-Cooperate-with-UN-Gaza-Probe-20141113-0018.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 telesurtv.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli spokesperson Wednesay [12 Nov 2014] declared that Israel will not participate in the U.N. inquiry into its 50-day attack on Gaza last summer. Netanyahu refused to allow the investigative team to cross Israeli borders. It had arrived in Amman, Jordan and was originally planning to travel through Israel to reach the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}