UN: Israel may have committed crimes against humanity

Updated 2019-02-28: the Article has been added to a correction

just Over 6,000 demonstrators skottskadades by the israeli military during the protests, which began in the spring of 2018. And there is evidence for suspected crimes against humanity during the unrest in the Gaza strip, according to the UN report, which was presented on Thursday.

189 palestinians were killed, of which 35 children, two journalists and three medics who were shot by israeli snipers.

palestinian protesters who posed an immediate threat, according to the report.

”Israeli soldiers violated international human rights and humanitarian rights. Some of these crimes may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity,” says Santiago Canton, the chairman of the UN independent commission of inquiry on the protests in the palestinian territories, in a statement.

Israel is calling the report ”hostile, false and biased” and an ”absurd theater” and claiming that the soldiers defended themselves and Israel's borders from armed extremists.

the right to self-defense and the obligation to defend its citizens and borders from violent attacks”, said the acting foreign minister Israel Katz in a statement.

the Report extends over the period march to december 2018 and based on hundreds of interviews with victims and witnesses, medical records, films, drönarbilder and photographs.

Around two million palestinians living in the Gaza strip. The majority of them have fled or were driven out from Israel, several arab countries attacked Israel in 1948 in the context of the country's founding.

to return to the home as their relatives left in 1948 and want to see an end to the Israeli blockade on the Gaza strip.

Israel and palestinian groups in Gaza, which is controlled by islamiströrelsen Hamas have fought three wars since 2008.

Correction: In a previous text, there was an incorrect wording on the conclusions of the inquiry.