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UN Enters Gaza for War Crimes Probe

HeadlineJun 02, 2009

United Nations human rights investigators have entered Gaza to probe possible war crimes and other violations of international law during Israel’s military assault on Gaza last December. Israel has refused to cooperate with the investigation. The UN team is headed by South African jurist Richard Goldstone.

Richard Goldstone: “On behalf of the four members of the fact-finding mission sent here by the United Nations to do a fact-finding with regard to not only the military campaign in December and January in the past few months, but also to look at any violations of international human rights law, of international humanitarian law.”

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