2023-10-12 18:19:44
On Monday morning, the United Nations Human Rights Council observed a minute of silence. The highest UN body for the protection of human rights commemorated the victims of the unprecedented terrorist attacks on Israel by the radical Islamist Hamas. The USA had demanded that those killed be silently honored. The minute’s silence was the Human Rights Council’s strongest response to date to the Hamas attacks and Israel’s military response. “The council has not condemned these attacks,” said the committee when asked by STANDARD. This is quite astonishing: even a UN commission of inquiry states that there is already “clear evidence” of war crimes in the conflict. From both parties. In addition, there was initially no request for a special session of the UN body.
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