Palestinians in Gaza have been protesting for nearly a year along the separation fence with Israel.
By Ruth Eglash Ruth Eglash Reporter covering Israel and the Palestinian territories Email Bio Follow February 28 at 10:11 AM JERUSALEM — Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and should be held individually and collectively accountable for the deaths of 189 Palestinian protesters in Gaza last year, according to a report published Thursday by the United Nations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the report, saying it “set a new record for U.N. hypocrisy” and was “based purely on an obsessive hatred of Israel.” Criticizing the Israeli military’s rules of engagement, which have included using snipers to prevent protesters from reaching the border fence, the commission said that “less lethal alternatives remained available and substantial defenses were in place, rendering the use of lethal force neither necessary nor proportionate, and therefore impermissible.”
Johan Eriksson, media adviser for the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said the commission had also assembled a confidential dossier of complicit individuals that “will be made available for an appropriate legal body to use.” He did not disclose whether the document named individual soldiers, commanders or key decision-makers.
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