Israeli soldiers may have committed war crimes while responding to Palestinian protests on the Gaza border last year, UN human rights experts have said.
A commission of inquiry investigated the killing of 189 Palestinians between 30 March and 31 December 2018.
It found reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli snipers shot at children, medics and journalists, even though they were clearly recognisable as such.
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Israel’s acting foreign minister said it rejected the findings outright.
“The theatre of the absurd of the Human Rights Council produced another hostile, false and biased report against the state of Israel,” Yisrael Katz said in a statement.
Source: Gaza protest deaths: Israel may have committed war crimes – UN
