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Source: http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=171588
Israel: UN Human Rights Council Has Done Nothing to Stop Rockets
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Israel charged Monday that the UN Human Rights Council does not believe it has the right to self-defense against the rockets Gaza Palestinians launch against its citizens. "You have done nothing about it, and you expect that Israel does nothing either," said Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Aharon Leshno Yaar. He noted that even South African jurist Richard Goldstone had stated that "the firing of these rockets are war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity." Last Thursday, he said, one such rocket killed a Thai citizen, Manee Singueanphon, who was working in a greenhouse near the Gaza border. He accused council members of disproportionately focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a way to shift the body's focus away from their own human rights issues.