Israel's Behavior "Is Unacceptable..."
Palestinians call for UN probe of Gaza killings
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh gives sweets to a Palestinian baby as he sits next to Huda Gali, who lost her family last Friday to an Israeli missile strike on Gaza Beach, during his visit to her house in north Gaza Strip June 14, 2006. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)
June 15, 2006
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Palestinians and their supporters said on Thursday they had asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to investigate the killing of seven civilians on a beach in Gaza last week they blame on Israel.
The Palestinian U.N. observer Riyad Mansour said representatives from the Non-Aligned Movement, the U.N. Palestinian rights committee, the Arab League and the Islamic conference all had approached Annan on Wednesday to back the request.
Mansour quoted the secretary-general as saying he would consider it. Annan also told reporters such an investigation would need the consent of Israel, which has indicated the explosion could have come from an errant shell.
Israel's behavior "is unacceptable to this large body of the international community," Mansour told reporters. "This sentiment was conveyed to the secretary-general."
He said he had also spoken to this month's Security Council president, Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Loj of Denmark, to get backing for an investigation.
Ali Ghaliya; his wife, Raisa; and three children, ages 1, 3 and 10; were having a picnic on the northern Gaza beach on Friday and were all killed in the shelling. Huda Ghaliya, 7, who had been playing nearby at the time, survived.
Annan, at a news conference, said he expected the Israeli government to put out "a definitive report." He said he had "a very long conversation" with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as well as President Mahmoud of the Palestinian Authority and would continue his dialogue with them.
On Tuesday, after Israel said the blast was cause by a mine or an explosive device placed by Palestinians, Annan commented to reporters that "to find a mine on the beach is rather odd."
He also cast doubt on the usefulness of an international investigation, saying, "Our previous attempts at such investigations were not too successful."
Blaming Israel for Friday's explosion, the Hamas government declared an end to a 16-month truce with the Jewish state.
The group was responsible for nearly 60 suicide bombings in Israel since a Palestinian uprising began in 2000.
Update:
Rights group says Israel beach death probe not credible
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh gives sweets to a Palestinian baby as he sits next to Huda Gali, who lost her family last Friday to an Israeli missile strike on Gaza Beach, during his visit to her house in north Gaza Strip June 14, 2006. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)
June 15, 2006
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Palestinians and their supporters said on Thursday they had asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to investigate the killing of seven civilians on a beach in Gaza last week they blame on Israel.
The Palestinian U.N. observer Riyad Mansour said representatives from the Non-Aligned Movement, the U.N. Palestinian rights committee, the Arab League and the Islamic conference all had approached Annan on Wednesday to back the request.
Mansour quoted the secretary-general as saying he would consider it. Annan also told reporters such an investigation would need the consent of Israel, which has indicated the explosion could have come from an errant shell.
Israel's behavior "is unacceptable to this large body of the international community," Mansour told reporters. "This sentiment was conveyed to the secretary-general."
He said he had also spoken to this month's Security Council president, Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Loj of Denmark, to get backing for an investigation.
Ali Ghaliya; his wife, Raisa; and three children, ages 1, 3 and 10; were having a picnic on the northern Gaza beach on Friday and were all killed in the shelling. Huda Ghaliya, 7, who had been playing nearby at the time, survived.
Annan, at a news conference, said he expected the Israeli government to put out "a definitive report." He said he had "a very long conversation" with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as well as President Mahmoud of the Palestinian Authority and would continue his dialogue with them.
On Tuesday, after Israel said the blast was cause by a mine or an explosive device placed by Palestinians, Annan commented to reporters that "to find a mine on the beach is rather odd."
He also cast doubt on the usefulness of an international investigation, saying, "Our previous attempts at such investigations were not too successful."
Blaming Israel for Friday's explosion, the Hamas government declared an end to a 16-month truce with the Jewish state.
The group was responsible for nearly 60 suicide bombings in Israel since a Palestinian uprising began in 2000.
Update:
Rights group says Israel beach death probe not credible
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 6:47 AM
1 Comments:
What is happening in my country of Palestine is a crime within itself and we are honorable people not unlike those who are bent on our extermination and the full occupation of all our lands.
What happened that day on the beach was just plain murder in my opinion and should be exposed as such or the real truth comes out to the madness that is happening to the Palestinian people.
I am sorry to say what is happening in my country is terrible to the point that it is hard for many people in the world to conceive, but the horrors are real and people should take an interest in the inhuman treatment of not just Palestine but what else is going on in the world because at this time and as far as I know has never occurred in history a large global extermination of millions of people is taking place. As far as anyone to taking a back seat to this will not save them for it will eventually be knocking at their door and by then it will be too late.
The Muslim world is not the enemy, we are dealing with something vastly more complex and the lack of a better word is Global Domination in its worse form.
One thing happening is a growing propaganda machine that one does have to weed through to find the real truth and often times it takes great care and many aspirin’s but as they say truth will win, but I really hope it is before it is to late and people see the daylight before something should happen that will more effect the world. I do not know if you realize but that even the people of Australia associated with Iraq it may very well in the not so far distant future blow up in your face.
One final note why this picture may seem like a candid photo, I am sure the intentions were far greater then what many not in the Middle East think.
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