The long wave of the war in Gaza does not stop and arrives in international meetings. The UN Human Rights Council has decided to open an international inquiry into the “human rights violations committed in the occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel since last April”, but also “the root causes” of the tensions. A resolution – on the initiative of Pakistan – that the premier Benjamin Netanyahu he rejected it by denouncing “the open anti-Israeli obsession of the UN”. “Once again – he denounced – an automatic immoral majority bleaches a terrorist and genocidal organization that deliberately hits Israeli civilians while transforming those of Gaza into human shields”, while “portraying as guilty a democracy that acts legitimately to protect its citizens by thousands of indiscriminate missile attacks “. “This farce – Netanyahu continued furiously – makes a mockery of international law and encourages terrorists all over the world“.
The Council’s decision – approved in an extraordinary session with 24 votes in favor, 9 against and 14 abstentions – was preceded by an intervention by the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. The UN official said Israel’s attacks on the Strip during the conflict could constitute “war crimes”. Israel, which is not a member of the Council, reiterated that it is an institution “driven by hypocrisy and absurdity”.
But the tension also exploded between Israel and France because of the words attributed to the foreign minister of Paris Jean-Yves Le Drian who, in an interview in recent days, spoke of “apartheid risk” in the Jewish state due to the violence between Arabs and Jews during the conflict. The Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi today he summoned the French ambassador Eric Danon, to which he expressed the strong opposition of Israel. “Those of Le Drian – he told Danon – are unacceptable words that distort reality. We expect friends not to express themselves irresponsibly”. Among other things, Ashkenazi should go to Cairo next week to strengthen the ceasefire reached in Gaza. Egypt also sent the Palestinian National Authority and also Hamas for indirect talks with the parties to reach a deeper truce. If so, Ashkenazi’s visit will be the first official in many years by an Israeli foreign minister to Cairo.
A first page in the Hebrew edition of the liberal Haaretz it then aroused a hive of controversy in Israel, even for a glaring omission. The newspaper – resuming a service of the New York Times – published on the first and third pages the photos of the 67 minors killed in Gaza during the war. But unlike the New York Times he omitted photos of the two Israeli child victims. The portraits of Gaza’s minors were surmounted by the opening title ‘This is the price of war’. In the face of the omission, the publisher Amos Shocken he apologized for the “serious mistake” by putting it on an unspecified journalist, according to whom “there had already been talk” of the Israeli victims “widely and in real time”.
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