GENEVA (NEWSnet/AP) — United Nations human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israel forces and Palestine armed groups in connection with a raid that freed four hostages but killed hundreds of Palestinians.
Office spokesman Jeremy Laurence expressed concern about possible violations of rules of proportionality, distinction and precaution by Israel’s forces in the June 8 raid at the Nuseirat refugee camp.
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Laurence said Palestinian armed groups who are holding hostages in densely populated areas are putting the lives of civilians and the hostages at “added risks” from the hostilities.
“All these actions by both parties may amount to war crimes,” he told a regular U.N. briefing in Geneva. “It was catastrophic, the way that this was carried out in that civilians — again — were caught smack bang in the middle of this.”
Alluding to the “ordeal” faced by hostages and their families, he said: “The fact that four hostages are now free is clearly very good news. These hostages should never have been taken in the first place. That’s a breach of international humanitarian law. They must be freed. All of them. Promptly.”
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