The Israeli military was guilty of “an unacceptable level of brutality” and deployed “totally unnecessary and incredible violence” in the raid last May on a humanitarian assistance flotilla off the coast of Gaza that killed nine people, a United Nations panel says in a report released last night.
After a fact-finding mission ordered by the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, the three authors of the report give almost no quarter to Israel about the episode, saying that its forces violated international law.
The findings come even as a second high-level panel created by the UN Security Council is preparing shortly to issue its own interim findings. Israel refused to co-operate with the Human Rights Council team and was swift last night in dismissing its conclusions.
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