The US House of Representatives has rejected as "irredeemably biased" the findings of a UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes during its military assault on the Gaza Strip. The house on Tuesday voted 344 to 36 in favour of a non-binding resolution calling on Barack Obama, the US president, to maintain his opposition to the report, which was written by a panel led by Richard Goldstone, a South African judge. The report accused Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group, which has de facto control of Gaza, of war crimes during the 22-day conflict in December and January. But most of its criticism was directed towards Israel's conduct during the offensive, in which human rights organisations say about 1,400 Palestinians - many of them women and children - were killed. Continue reading at Al Jazeera. Get HuffPost World On Facebook and Twitter!
Comment on Goldstone Report "Irredeemably Biased," Says U.S. House
The Huffington Post News Team, Huffington Post: Politics
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:11am
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