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UN rights body adopts resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for potential war crimes

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The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution on Friday demanding Israel be held liable for potential war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, as the six-month anniversary for the Israel-Hamas conflict nears.

The decision prompted applause from a majority of the human rights body, but triggered accusations from Israel’s UN ambassador that the organization has abandoned the Israeli people.

“According to the resolution… Israel has no right to protect its people, while Hamas has every right to murder and torture innocent Israelis. Israel should have stood idly by on Oct. 7 as Hamas unleashed its barbaric acts,” Israel’s UN ambassador Meirav Eilon Shahar said during the session.

Though Israel has brushed off the resolution as a “distorted text,” 28 countries voted in its favour, with 13 abstaining and six opposing it — one of which was the U.S.

“There have been calls for accountability across the world, but that position changes when we're talking about Israel. I do not understand how you will justify to your children what they are witnessing now, this televised genocide, broadcast to the world,” Palestinian ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi said.

The resolution stresses "the need to ensure accountability for all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in order to end impunity” and expresses "grave concern at reports of serious human rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip.

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