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Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:42 PM

Published 11/07/2009 by Electronic Intifada


UN vote overwhelmingly supports Goldstone report

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last winter is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it.

The report, which was favorably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, received...

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"If the expert's reports do not indicate within six months that good faith, independent proceedings are taking place, the Security Council should refer the situation in Gaza to the Prosecutor in the International Criminal Court" the report recomme...
UN vote overwhelmingly supports Goldstone report [Electronic Intifada - 11/07/2009]
"It will ensure that henceforth the Israeli state as well as Palestinian armed groups are more careful about the use of force" she said
UN vote overwhelmingly supports Goldstone report [Electronic Intifada - 11/07/2009]

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