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Israel announces: We will not cooperate with UN Commission of Inquiry into Operation Guardian of the Walls - Walla! News

2022-02-17T18:14:52.563Z


Israel's ambassador to the UN institutions in Geneva sent a letter to the chair of the International Commission of Inquiry accusing her and her colleagues of being biased and of anti-Israel stances. Senior Israeli: We will not allow committee members to enter Israel


Israel announced: We will not cooperate with the UN Commission of Inquiry into Operation The Guardian of the Walls

Israel's ambassador to the UN institutions in Geneva sent a letter to the chair of the International Commission of Inquiry accusing her and her colleagues of being biased and of anti-Israel stances.

Senior Israeli: We will not allow committee members to enter Israel

Lightning Ravid

17/02/2022

Thursday, 17 February 2022, 20:00 Updated: 20:01

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In the video: Navy fighters summarize "The Guardian of the Walls" and prepare for the next operation (stills: Reuven Castro, video: Shai Makhlouf and Dotz, editor: Amit Simcha)

Israel announced today (Thursday) to the chair of the International Commission of Inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that it will not cooperate with its work - according to a letter sent by the Israeli Ambassador to the UN Institutions in Geneva Meirav Ayalon- Shahar to the chairman of the committee, Nabi Pillai, and a copy of it was received by Walla !.



The committee was set up by the Human Rights Council last May after Operation Wall Guard. The mandate received by the committee was particularly broad and includes an investigation into the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and not just the recent war in Gaza



. In June, he will refer to Israel as an "apartheid state" and that the findings of the report will cause Israel particularly serious image damage among liberal audiences in the United States and Europe. A few weeks ago it was reported in Walla! "

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Israel will not cooperate with the commission of inquiry.

UN Human Rights Council (Photo: AP)

On December 29, the committee's chairman, Nabi Pillai, sent a letter to the Israeli embassy at the UN institutions in Geneva inviting the Israeli government to cooperate with the investigation.

Today, Israeli Ambassador Meirav Elon-Shachar sent a four-page reply letter to Pilai, in which he sharply criticized the committee and its members and announced that Israel would not cooperate.



A senior Israeli official told Walla!

Because Israel will not allow committee members to enter its territory or the West Bank and Gaza Strip.



The Israeli ambassador wrote in the letter that Israel has no reason to believe that it will be treated fairly and not discriminated against by the commission of inquiry.

She argued that although the commission of inquiry should be independent and autonomous, all three of its members "repeatedly expressed hostile positions to Israel on the issue that the commission itself is supposed to investigate."



Elon-Shahar accused the chairman of the Pilai Commission of Inquiry of leading an anti-Israel agenda and of speaking out countless times in an anti-Israel manner, including comparing Israel to the apartheid regime in South Africa and supporting the boycott campaign against Israel.

Israel accuses her of expressing herself in an anti-Israel manner.

Pillai (Photo: AP, Elisa Day)

The ambassador also wrote that one member of the committee, the former UN correspondent Kutari, used the terms "ethnic cleansing" and "massacre" to describe Israel's actions in the territories.



"You received the appointment for the position because you are biased against Israel and to ensure in advance that the conclusions are tailored to your political motivations," the Israeli ambassador wrote to the chairman of the International Commission of Inquiry

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On February 28, the UN Human Rights Council will convene in Geneva for a month of deliberations. Ahead of the opening session, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem sent a telegram to dozens of Israeli embassies around the world requesting lobbying efforts against the commission of inquiry.



"We ask that you address the highest levels in the countries in which you serve and ask that they criticize the Commission of Inquiry in their opening speech at the Human Rights Council meeting," read a telegram from which Walla !.

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