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UN rights council pushed on int’l probe into Israeli violence
By: Anjum Kermani
GENEVA: Muslim states have called on the new United Nations
Human Rights Council to launch an international investigation
into Israeli ‘atrocities’ in Lebanon.
But Western and non-Muslim countries on the 47-member body
said any inquiry must be balanced by also looking into rights
violations and attacks on civilians by Lebanese group
Hezbollah.
Speaking for the Arab League a Tunisian delegate told a
special Council session on the month-old conflict: ‘Israel is
committing war crimes and crimes against humanity ... and
massacres in various places (in Lebanon).’
In a speech opening the session, UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights Louise Arbour said there had been widespread
shock at an Israeli attack on the Lebanese town of Qana on
July 30 in which many civilians, most of them children, died.
But she also said Hezbollah was guilty of ‘indiscriminate
shelling of densely populated centres’ in northern Israel.
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