|
Trending Topics
|
UN Commissioner Invited to Israel to Rectify Her Misconceptions
(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict chairwoman Mary McGowan Davis responded positively to an invitation from Yesh Atid MK Haim Jelin to visit southern Israel and meet with its residents. Last month, Jelin, former head of the Eshkol Regional Council near Gaza, wrote to McGowan Davis following renewed rocket fire: "Last night, for the sixth time since the end of Operation Protective Edge, citizens of Israel, innocent men, women and children, experienced another night of sirens.... [Terrorists] were firing at innocent citizens who have done nothing to them." Jelin criticized McGowan Davis for not calling those who shoot rockets at Israel terrorist organizations in her report on the 2014 war and the UN for not acting to support the demilitarization of Gaza. "The commission expressed concern about Israel's use of force during the operation, but has no such concern about a terrorist organization routinely shooting at innocent civilians in Israel," he stated. "How could the rocket which exploded in Israel tonight, near a city, be anything other than a war crime? Would you define it as fire at military targets? Do you still stand behind the de facto comparison between a sovereign democratic state and a terrorist organization?"