UNHRC Decision "A travesty and should be rejected by decent people
everywhere"
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

The decision today by the UNHRC is a travesty and should be rejected by
decent people everywhere.

Rather than investigate Hamas, which is committing a double war crime by
firing rockets at Israeli civilians while hiding behind Palestinian
civilians, the UNHRC calls for an investigation of Israel, which has gone to
unprecedented lengths to keep Palestinian civilians out of harm's way,
including by dropping leaflets, making phone calls and sending text
messages.

The UNHRC should be launching an investigation into Hamas's decision to turn
hospitals into military command centers, use schools as weapons depots and
place missile batteries next to playgrounds, private homes and mosques.

By failing to condemn Hamas's systematic use of human shields and by blaming
Israel for the deaths that are caused by this grotesque human shields
policy, the UNHRC is sending a message to Hamas and terror organizations
everywhere that using civilians as human shields is an effective strategy.

Like the investigation that led to the infamous Goldstone report, a report
which was ultimately renounced by its own author, this investigation by a
kangaroo court is a foregone conclusion.

The predictable result will be the libeling of Israel and even greater use
of human shields in the future by Hamas. Those who will pay the price will
be not only Israelis but also Palestinians who Hamas will redouble its
efforts to use as human shields in the future.