The U.N. human rights chief Friday slammed Israel’s deadly reaction to protests along the Gaza border as “wholly disproportionate”, backing calls for an international investigation.
Addressing a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council on the violence which has claimed 116 Gazan lives in six weeks, Zeid Raad al-Hussein warned that “killing resulting from the unlawful use of force by an occupying power may also constitute willful killings, a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention”