The Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store has advised that Norway will be actively following up on a UN Human Rights Council report, which came after a fact-finding mission during the recent Gaza conflict. The report claims human rights and humanitarian law violations. According to the Norway Post, Gahr Store has deemed the allegations very serious.
“The extensive work carried out by the UN Fact-Finding Mission must now be actively followed up. The report contains very serious allegations. As a member of the UN Human Rights Council, Norway will as a first step seek to ensure that the report is dealt with as thoroughly as possible by the Human Rights Council,” he said in response to the report.
The independent fact-finding mission for the UN Human Rights Council was led by South Africa’s Justice Richard Goldstone, and investigated the alleged violations of both humanitarian laws and human rights by Israel during the conflict. The mission stated that there was sufficient evidence to suggest Israeli actions constituted war crimes and even crimes against humanity.
The report also found that Palestinian armed factions may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity with their continued launching of mortar and rocket propelled grenades across the border into southern Israel.
Mr Store stressed that Norway was fully behind bringing to justice those who violate humanitarian law. “I note that the Justice Goldstone’s Fact-Finding Mission has considered the conduct of both parties to the conflict. Norway has earlier underlined the need for an independent investigation of the alleged violations of international humanitarian law during the operations in Gaza earlier this year,” said the Norwegian minister.
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Thank goodness SOMEONE is willing to seek a genuine implementation of justice.
RE: RE Human Rights Council debate in Geneva today. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner asking Israel to investigate their own War Crimes is a bit like asking the family of a suspected murderer to find evidence against him. This is surely a further sign that the Obama administration has a policy of appeasement towards Israel’s right wing government as opposed to a policy which seeks any form of real justice whatsoever.
It seems tragic that whilst US taxpayers have their homes repossessed, Obama sends billions of their tax dollars to fund Israel’s settlers and military, knowing full well that the rest of the world (mugs that we are) will accept this and pump in further billions to try to contain the bloody mess and actually propagate the suffering of the millions of Palestinian refugees, who are denied any right of return.
A question to the Zionists: If you knew that the Palestinian people would renounce all acts of violent resistance or retaliation, would you be willing to share this once beautiful land with them (the indigenous non Jewish population who lived here for thousands of years – prior to the influx of Zionists in reasonable harmony with the indigenous Jews). Would you be willing to give them equal rights to the Israeli Jews, or do you believe they are inferior or unworthy in some way? Why are the 20% of Israel’s population who are non Jews treated as second class citizens?
Wishing peace and love for all people living in PAlestine/Israel. Only true justice for the refugees and all the Palestinians will result in lasting peace. “Security” alone will never bring peace.
You forgot to add ‘for eight years straight’ on the fourth paragraph.
Norway’s gonna look pretty stupid when the soldiers and the citizens bombarded come to testify. Even left-wingers in Israel acknowledge the fact the report is filled with fabrications (*ahem* Aftonbladet *ahem*).