(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - The UN Human Rights Council on Friday voted to adopt a report by a UN inquiry commission on the 2014 Gaza war last summer. 41 countries voted in favor, five abstained - India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Paraguay, Macedonia - and only one, the U.S., voted against, saying it was biased against Israel. All EU member states of the Council, including Britain, France and Germany, voted in favor. Israel's Ambassador to Geneva, Eviatar Manor, slammed the decision to adopt the report, saying it "distorts the intention of the authors of the report by completely ignoring alleged violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law committed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups." "Allow me to tell the truth about what Israel did in Gaza," Manor continued. "One, Israel defended its population against aggression by a terrorist organization. A terrorist organization which serially rejected every cease-fire proposed. Two, Israel went to extraordinary lengths to minimize the impact of the violence on Gaza's civilian population. It went to great lengths to warn the civilian population on impending strikes. Three, Israel is fully committed to investigating all alleged violations of the Laws of Armed Conflict. Israel's investigative mechanism has already filtered close to 200 cases. Over 100 of these cases have been handed over to the Military Advocate General."
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