GENEVA - The UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to send a team of international war crimes investigators to probe the deadly shootings of Gaza protesters by Israeli forces. Only two of the council's 47 members, the United States and Australia, voted against the resolution, while 29 voted in favour and 14 abstained, including Britain, Switzerland and Germany. US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley slammed the rights council's decision, calling it "another shameful day for human rights". Israeli ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Aviva Raz Shechter, slammed what she called a "shameful" and "biased" resolution by the UN rights council. Hamas is the one committing war crimes," she said, insisting that with Friday's resolution, the Human Rights Council "has reached a new height of hypocrisy".

Source: Bangkok Post May 18, 2018 20:37 UTC