Israel wants UN Gaza war probe axed

ISRAEL has called for a UN inquiry into its 50-day war in Gaza last summer to be shelved, as its chairman quit over Israeli accusations of conflict of interest.

CANADIAN international law expert William Schabas tendered his resignation on Monday after Israel complained he had prepared a legal opinion for the Palestine Liberation Organisation in October 2012, the United Nations said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the departure of a man he said was "biased against Israel" but said the whole investigation needed to be abandoned as it had been commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council, which he described as an "anti-Israel body"."This is the same council that in 2014 made more decisions against Israel than against Iran, Syria and North Korea combined."Israel has long had stormy relations with the UN Human Rights Council.In January 2012, it became the first country to refuse to attend a periodic review of its human rights record. And two months later, it cut all ties with the council over its plans to probe how Jewish settlements were harming Palestinian rights.In his resignation letter, Schabas strongly denied he was in any way beholden to the PLO but said he was reluctantly stepping down to avoid the UN inquiry into the war being compromised in any away.Council spokesman Rolando Gomez said the commission, which is scheduled to present its findings to the council next month, was in "the final phase of collecting evidence".The Gaza conflict ended with a truce between Israel and the territory's Islamist de facto rulers Hamas on August 26 after the deaths of more than 2140 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 73 people on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers.

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