The government of Israel has refused to cooperate with the three-member panel, headed by Canadian legal expert William Schabas.
Tovah Lazaroff
The Jerusalem Post
1/19/2015
…The government of Israel has refused to cooperate with the three-member panel, headed by Canadian legal expert William Schabas.
It has charged that the panel is biased and the equivalent of a kangaroo court, because it holds that its mandate is slanted against Israel. In addition, Schabas has already said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be brought before the International Criminal Court.
Israel has denied the panel entry into Gaza and the West Bank. It has held hearings in Geneva either in person or via Skype. On Sunday, the commission arrived in Jordan to hear additional testimony.
The commission has solicited testimony from Israelis.
Among those who have responded is the Tel Aviv-based International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.
Ronit Gidron-Zemach, the association’s director, said she has been working with the commission for months and provided it with testimony from some 22 people about the impact of living under rocket fire in the South…
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