Geneva – The international council on human rights on Wednesday condemned the Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip especially in Beit Hanun north of the Strip with a majority of 35 votes against 8 and 6 abstentions.
The Geneva-based council’s board expressed the world community’s shock over the killing of Palestinian civilians while asleep in their beds and the slaying of other civilians while fleeing Israeli military assaults.
It demanded protection for the unarmed Palestinian civilians as envisaged in the international and humanitarian laws.
The IOF troops killed 20 Palestinian civilians mostly children and women and wounded more than 60 others in Beit Hanun on 8/11 in artillery shelling.
The council’s board decided to send a senior fact-finding committee to visit Beit Hanun and to assess the victims’ conditions and needs before tabling recommendations on means of protecting unarmed Palestinians in the event of other Israeli attacks.
The board members asked that committee to present a report to the board at a time not exceeding mid December 2006.
The board finally denounced the IOF troops’ vast destruction of Palestinian infrastructure and property demanding the trial of those responsible as war criminals.
