JERUSALEM
Israel will not cooperate with a United Nations inquiry
into its 50-day war with rocket-firing militants in Gaza this summer, a
government spokesman said on Wednesday.
“Since the Schabas
commission is not an inquiry but a commission that gives its conclusions
in advance, Israel will not cooperate with the commission of the UN
Human Rights Council over the last conflict with Hamas,” foreign
ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said in a statement.
The
decision had been taken because of the “obsessive hostility against
Israel of this commission and the words of its president against Israel
and its leaders,” he added.
In August, Canadian international law
expert William Schabas was named as the head of the UN commission,
angering Israel, where he is widely regarded as hostile to the Jewish
state over reported calls to bring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
before the International Criminal Court. Israel has long had stormy
relations with the UN Human Rights Council.
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