This new Commission of Inquiry of the state of Israel was voted into existence by the Human Rights Council in the spring and funded by the General Assembly this December.
It is the most hostile anti-Israel “inquiry” in UN history, and is headed by the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, South African Navi Pillay, known for her direct involvement and support of the infamous Goldstone Report. It establishes the most hostile and dangerous body the UN has ever created and it will be a permanent standing body with no end date to its operation. It is appalling that, while many other nations commit real human rights abuses, the UN chooses again to single out Israel.
The commission’s mandate is to investigate “all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law leading up to and since April 13, 2021, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and 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.”
There is no mention of rocket launches by Hamas or any actions by other aggressors against Israel.