House repudiates Goldstone report on Gaza war
World News | Nilanie | November 4, 2009 at 12:24 pm
The House on Tuesday condemned a U.N. report that accuses Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of war crimes in the Gaza Strip last winter as “irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.”
On a vote of 344 to 36, the House passed a nonbinding resolution that urges President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton “to oppose unequivocally any endorsement” of the report.
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said the report is “unfair, unbalanced and inaccurate” in its portrayal of Israel’s response to attacks from Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza.
The U.N. General Assembly planned to take up the report’s findings on Wednesday.
Thirteen Israelis and more than 1,000 Palestinians were killed during the Dec. 27-Jan. 18 conflict.
The 575-page U.N. report accuses Israel of applying disproportionate force, targeting civilians, destroying civilian infrastructure and using human shields in its offensive to stop militant rocket fire. It also criticizes rocket squads affiliated with Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups for attacking Israeli civilians.
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