Tutu: Both Israel, Palestinians may have committed war crimes
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Monday that Israel may have committed a war crime by shelling Beit Hanun in 2006, but that Palestinians also were at fault for firing rockets at Israeli civilians.
Israeli and Palestinian authorities should prosecute people on both sides who attacked civilians in the town in Gaza and in neighboring Israel, Tutu said in a report to the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council.
"In the absence of a well-founded explanation from the Israeli military ... the mission must conclude that there is a possibility that the shelling of Beit Hanoun constituted a war crime," the report continued.
Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Aharon Leshno-Yaar, refused to discuss the war crimes allegation as Israel rejects the validity of Tutu's report.
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