Israel rejected the document made by a representative of the United Nations, which claims that the Israeli Army committed serious was crimes during their Operation in Gaza Strip, after assuring that the research lacks credibility as it was carried out without analyzing all facts and events occurred in that region.
In an exclusive interview with the Jewish News Agency (AJN, Agencia Judía de Noticias en Español) the Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Daniel Carmon assured that “the report has no credibility whatsoever because before facts were investigated, results were already available.”
Carmon also noted that Richard Falk, the person responsible for the document “isn’t UN’s special envoy,” but a representative of the organisation’s Human Rights Council.
In this sense, the Israeli diplomat assured that such council is “rather unbalanced” and suffers from “authomatic majority”.
“It’s a body which isn’t impartial”, insisted Carmon so as to lower the tone of Falk’s report, which was released a few hours after the Israeli Defense Forces started a research regarding the behaviour of their soldiers in Gaza during the Operation Cast Lead.
Carmon assured that the Human Rights Council’s envoy “had ideas and points of view against Israel long before he started working for the Organization.”
Always speaking with this Agency, the Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel justified the decision of the Israeli government to ban the representative’s admission into the country.
“Israel doesn’t allow the entrance of such subject because we believe that when one has to make impartial reports, it can’t have points of view before starting working. This is not acceptable,” he sustained.
Apart from this, the diplomat noted that Falk arrived in Israel with “a fake and unfair statement.”
As far as Carmon is concerned, the United Nations must “correct” the operation of these bodies which depend of the Human Rights Council, that according to him, they should be completely modified.
“Unfortunately, the UN, an Organization which must be impartial and fair, sometimes releases resolutions which aren’t impartial, especially from Geneva,” he added.
According to Carmon’s explanations, the Human Rights Council should release, in the following days, a statement regarding the report filed by Falk.
“The United Nations is an organization that accounts for thousands of reports. Many of them are highly important because they aim at controlling truths and realities. But when there are reports promoted by countries which have an automatic electoral majority, and such countries want to condemn other country before research is carried out, such kind of reports lack credibility,” insisted the diplomat.
According to the information provided by the Israeli press, Falk accused Israel of committing serious war crimes, for the Geneva Convention requires that war forces distinguish between military and civilians.
“If that isn’t possible to perform, then launching attacks is completely illegal and it seems to constitute the greatest war crime under the International Law,” stated Falk.
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