The UN General Assembly will consider by the end of the year a report on Israeli and Palestinian war crimes in Gaza, delivered by the organization”s Human Rights Council, a spokesman said.
The UN Human Rights Council”s resolution adopting the so-called Goldstone report was passed in Geneva last Friday by 25 votes to six, with 11 countries abstaining and five declining to vote.
General Assembly spokesman Jean-Victor Nkolo said on Monday that the president of the 64th UN General Assembly, Libya”s Ali Treki, began consultations with UN members and the parties involved on the date for the report”s consideration, which would be held by the end of December.
The UN Fact Finding Mission, which acted on a UN mandate, was instructed to investigate all facts of violations of the international human rights law, which could have been committed during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza on December 27, 2008 – January 18, 2009.
The investigation led by former South African judge Richard Goldstone concluded that both Israel and Palestinian militants committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during the conflict, which killed over 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israeli citizens.
Goldstone was especially critical of Israel, both for its conduct of the war and its continued occupation of Palestinian territory.
