"A coalition of over 26 international pro-Israel groups on Tuesday condemned a United Nations probe into the May 2021 Israeli-Palestinian conflict set to be released next month, alleging 'bias' and a violation of its own guiding principles.
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) established a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the deadly 2021 conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories, which left more than 270 people dead...
The probe was directed to investigate 'all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law' in Israel, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip that led to the deadly conflict.
A three-person commission was also tasked with investigating 'all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict, including systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity.'
But more than a dozen groups from around the globe, led by the International Legal Forum (ILF), have condemned the probe as biased following its appointment of three officials, including former United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay, to lead the investigations.
The groups pointed to Pillay’s role as high commissioner from 2008-2014, when she assembled multiple fact-finding missions into Israeli military operations in areas like the Gaza Strip...
But Pillay’s reference to Israel as an 'apartheid regime' has further called into question her ability to conduct an impartial investigation.
'This Commission makes a complete mockery of international law and is tantamount to an all-out assault against the Jewish state,' international human rights lawyer and leader of the ILF, Arsen Ostrovsky, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. 'It only underscores the UNHRC’s persistent, systematic and relentless bias against the State of Israel, which is consistently denied equality before the U.N. body and pronounced guilty from the outset. When it comes to the UNHRC, Israel does not even stand a chance.'..."