In the midst of near daily Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jordanian Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein claims in a new report that Israel's exercise of the right to self-defense is "incitement to violence."
The High Commissioner's report is a "follow-up" to a previous report that was commissioned by the Human Rights Council to condemn Israel's exercise the right of self-defense during the 2014 Gaza War. The so-called "independent commission of inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict" was a one-sided assault alleging Israeli criminality. In order to keep the cycle of anti-Israel reports going, the Council now does "follow-up" to the inquiry's report.
In the High Commissioner's "follow-up" report, he minimizes the current wave of Palestinian stabbing, shooting, and car ramming attacks against Israelis as merely "increased friction."
His report includes: "In the last quarter of 2015, in the face of increased friction between Israeli and Palestinians, Israeli NGOs and media reported an alarming climate of incitement to violence against Palestinians and Israeli civil society organizations. According to Israeli organizations, politicians and senior police officers have failed to act to calm the public climate of incitement and openly called for the extrajudicial killing of suspects. The situation has been further aggravated by Israeli policies of punitive house demolitions and of withholding the dead bodies of alleged attackers."