Report Condemns Hezbollah And Israeli Actions During War
Joseph S. Mayton - All Headline News Middle East Correspondent Beirut, Lebanon (AHN) - Rights experts have accused Hezbollah and the Israeli army of violating humanitarian law during the recent war between the two bodies. The four experts who visited Israel and Lebanon called on international bodies to investigate the conduct of all parties during the month-long war in a report. Philip Alston, Paul Hunt, Walter Kaelin and Miloon Kothari, who are independent experts to the United Nations Human Rights Council, wrote the 40-page report. The four had traveled to Israel and Lebanon in September on their own initiative in order to investigate the impact of the 34-day war on the civilian population. Israeli's ambassador to the United Nations office in Geneva did not comment on the specifics of the report, but did say the Jewish state welcomed criticism of Hezbollah for violating humanitarian law. "We will take this [report], we will read it carefully, and we will study it article by article," Itzhak Levanon was quoted as saying. He did add that it gave "unwarranted legitimacy to the Hezbollah."
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