Israel has complied with, and even exceeded the requirements of international law during the 2014 Gaza war with Hamas, senior military experts told the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday. The military experts warned that a recently released United…
The U.N. Human Rights Council approached the former commander of British troops in Afghanistan to join the panel for investigating the 2014 Gaza war, but his appointment never materialized. “I was approached by the president’s office of the UNHRC and…
Shouts of “the people of Israel live” reverberated across the square outside of the headquarters of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva Monday afternoon, as hundreds of supporters of the Jewish state rallied against a report commissioned by…
Even as the UN report accusing Israel of “war crimes” in Gaza last summer is submitted to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday, a group of military, legal and Middle East experts are to hold an alternative event…
Israel is learning that even war conducted with the best intentions does not go unpunished. On Monday, the United Nations Human Rights Council released a report on the conduct of Operation Protective Edge, the seven-week conflict in Gaza that took…
Anticipating what they believed would be an unfair U.N. report on last summer’s Gaza War, the Israeli government and friendly groups in the United States were ready with at least three reports they say better reflects the reality of the…
Israel’s conduct during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza was entirely legal and justified, a top general from the US Air Force stated Monday. “The UNHRC report on the Gaza conflict is unbalanced and fails to accurately assess which parties violated…
U.S. Gen. Charles Wald, the leader of a task force of retired senior U.S. military officers who studied and reported on the 2014 Gaza War, issued a statement Monday denouncing the U.N. Human Rights Council’s report on that conflict. He…
Gen Charles Wald, USAF (ret.), former Deputy Commander of United States European Command (EUCOM) and Chair of the JINSA-commissioned Gaza Conflict Task Force issued the following statement about the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report released on June 22, 2015:…
For three straight days starting on July 15, 2014, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) made thousands of phone calls to the residents of Shejaiya in northern Gaza. The locals were encouraged to evacuate their homes before IDF tanks rolled across…