Israel: UN Flotilla Raid Report is "Biased"
Reuters reports:
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said it would study a U.N. inquiry's conclusion that its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla violated international humanitarian law, but again rejected the investigators' mandate as "biased."
Three international experts assigned by the U.N. Human Rights Council to investigate the May 31 incident, in which nine Turkish activists were killed, said in a report Wednesday that the commando attack was unlawful.
Israel refused to cooperate with the panel and launched its own probe into the assault it said was carried out to enforce a naval blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza, and that its troops opened fire in defense against activists wielding knives and clubs.
In a statement posted on its web site, the Israeli Foreign Ministry reaffirmed Israel's shunning of the U.N. council that it denounced as "biased, politicized and extremist," citing a council report of last year that condemned an earlier Gaza war.
"Israel will nonetheless read and study the report."
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