UN rights body backs Israel probe.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted to send a team to Lebanon to investigate alleged abuses by Israel.
The council approved the resolution, proposed by a group of states led by Islamic countries, by 27 votes to 11.
Many of the resolution's opponents criticised it for not mentioning Hezbollah attacks on Israel.
Addressing the emergency session in Geneva, the UN's human rights chief, Louise Arbour, chided both sides for inflicting suffering on civilians.
"Israeli attacks affecting civilians continue unabated," she told a special session of the UN Human Rights Council.
"Also unrelenting is Hezbollah's indiscriminate shelling of densely populated centres in northern Israel," she said.
The resolution alleges systematic human rights violations by Israel using terms like war crimes, crimes against humanity and massacres.
Israel and the United States, although not members of the council, urged a vote against, calling the resolution unbalanced.
European Union countries, alongside Japan and Canada, voted against, calling it one-sided and divisive.
Those voting for included China, Russia, India, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay, Zambia and South Africa, as well as members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.
The Israeli ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Itzhak Levanon, said civilians on both sides were suffering but some council members were ignoring Hezbollah's "vicious campaign of terror".
But Lebanon's ambassador, Gebran Soufan, made an impassioned plea for support, saying the world's top human rights body could not neglect the suffering taking place in his country.
The resolution passed highlights once again the bitter divisions of the Middle East, the BBC's Imogen Foulkes says.
Human rights groups and aid agencies struggling to bring relief to Lebanon all agree the humanitarian situation in the region is becoming catastrophic, our correspondent notes.
But this resolution, revealing once again just how politicised the United Nations can be, is probably not what they were looking for, she adds.
More than 1,000 Lebanese, most of them civilians, have been killed in the month-long conflict, Lebanon says. Some 123 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have also been killed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4783511.stm
Originally posted by ivanhoeHow many of those so-called civilian deaths are actually Hezbollah deaths. Hell they hide with civilians using them as shields.
[b]UN rights body backs Israel probe.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted to send a team to Lebanon to investigate alleged abuses by Israel.
The council approved the resolution, proposed by a group of states led by Islamic countries, by 27 votes to 11.
Many of the resolution's opponents criticised it for not mentioning Hezbol ...[text shortened]... rs, have also been killed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4783511.stm
Originally posted by ivanhoeI would say upwards to 80% if they are Males and of fighting age. I'm sure there has been some unfortunate civilian deaths but, Hezbollah will use World opinion especially now that they are getting their asses kicked. If the World would let Israel go kinetic then Hezbollah would be just a memory in Lebanon. You ask those questions because you unlike the majority of Euros tend to be fair in your evaluation of the conflict in Lebanon. The Israel haters don't ask those questions.
Slimjim: "How many of those so-called civilian deaths are actually Hezbollah deaths."
I was asking myself the same question.
Originally posted by Sambo69Apparantly not enough. Too bad I wasn't president. I would have leveled the place (just to read your whiny posts STANG) and there would be a Wal-Mart in Fallujah right now if I was in charge.
Hell, how many civilians died during America's "shock-and-awe" campaign ?
Originally posted by slimjimWhy speak of that in jest? The residents of Fallujah right now could be taking advantage of the great prices and inviting ambiance that Walmart creates for us? It is our job as a nation to make that happen.
Apparantly not enough. Too bad I wasn't president. I would have leveled the place (just to read your whiny posts STANG) and there would be a Wal-Mart in Fallujah right now if I was in charge.
Originally posted by DraxusWhy don't ask you ivanhoe, Super Copy and Paste Man?
Why speak of that in jest? The residents of Fallujah right now could be taking advantage of the great prices and inviting ambiance that Walmart creates for us? It is our job as a nation to make that happen.
He'll answer all your questions.
Including what/which we are, where are we going, and another metaphyical questions.
Go ahead! he doesn't bite! 😀😀😀
Originally posted by DraxusI'm not joking. Right now Fallujah is pretty safe and is prospering compared to other sections of Baghdad. All it took was a few Marines and Soldiers to get the job done.
Why speak of that in jest? The residents of Fallujah right now could be taking advantage of the great prices and inviting ambiance that Walmart creates for us? It is our job as a nation to make that happen.
Originally posted by Sambo69Not many, actually, in the sense that civilains will always die in a conflagration. How many deaths have the US prevented by Hussein? It almost balances out as the Islamists can't figure out who Muhammed left in charge of Islam, so they are killing each other over it. The winner gets to interpret the Qu'ran their way......🙄
Hell, how many civilians died during America's "shock-and-awe" campaign ?
Originally posted by ivanhoeProbing sounds like sex....hi hi hi hi...
[b]UN rights body backs Israel probe.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted to send a team to Lebanon to investigate alleged abuses by Israel.
The council approved the resolution, proposed by a group of states led by Islamic countries, by 27 votes to 11.
Many of the resolution's opponents criticised it for not mentioning Hezbol ...[text shortened]... rs, have also been killed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4783511.stm
It's been too long. Sigh...