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UN terms
Israeli attack on Gaza flotilla violent and unlawful
Thursday, September 23, 2010 09:25:06 AM,
DPA
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New York:
An investigative report Wednesday from the UN Human Rights Council
in Geneva said that Israel's military interception of a flotilla
of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip in May was "clearly
unlawful" and violent.
The report from Geneva is separate from an investigation ordered
by the UN Security Council in New York following the May 31
incident on the high seas off Gaza, in which eight Turkish
nationals and one Turkish American were killed during the Israeli
interception.
The three-member probe panel set up by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
has been working separately from the Geneva investigation.
The report from a Human Rights Council mission that investigated
the incident reached the "firm conclusion that a humanitarian
crisis existed May 31, 2010, in Gaza Strip."
"The preponderance of evidence from impeccable sources is far too
overwhelming to come to a contrary conclusion," the report said.
It said the action from the Israeli Defence Forces on the Mavi
Marmara, the main ship in the flotilla, "in the circumstances and
for the reasons given on the high sea was clearly unlawful".
"Specifically the action cannot be justified in the circumstances
under Article 51 of the UN Charter," the report said, citing the
article that allows a nation to take arms in self-defence.
Israel had justified the military action as a means to maintain
its arms blockade of the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by the
militant Hamas Islamist movement.
"The conduct of the Israeli military and other personnel towards
the flotilla passengers was not only disproportionate to the
occasion but demonstrated levels of totally unnecessary and
incredible violence," the report said.
"It betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality."
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