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UN human rights chief accuses Israel of war crimes | World news | The Guardian

UN human rights chief accuses Israel of war crimes | World news | The Guardian: "The United Nations' most senior human rights official said last night that the Israeli military may have committed war crimes in Gaza. The warning came as Israeli troops pressed on with the deadly offensive in defiance of a UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire.

Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has called for 'credible, independent and transparent' investigations into possible violations of humanitarian law, and singled out an incident this week in Zeitoun, south-east of Gaza City, where up to 30 Palestinians in one house were killed by Israeli shelling.

Pillay, a former international criminal court judge from South Africa, told the BBC the incident 'appears to have all the elements of war crimes'.

The accusation came as Israel kept up its two-week-old air and ground offensive in Gaza and dismissed as 'unworkable' the UN security council resolution which had called for 'an immediate, durable and fully respected ceasefire'."

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