A new report by a United Nations-backed independent commission has found that the Israeli military’s “deliberate” use of heavy weapons in the Gaza Strip has been an “intentional and direct attack on the civilian population”, Al Jazeera reports.
Navi Pillay, chairperson of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said that Israel has committed crimes against humanity, forced starvation, extermination, murder and inhuman and cruel treatment of Palestinians.
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