Israel slams U.N. report as 'political blood libel' for alleging deliberate targeting of Palestinian children

"Israel reacted angrily over a new United Nations’ Commission of Inquiry report alleging the Jewish state had engaged in the ‘deliberate targeting of Palestinian children.’...

Israel's Ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, told Fox News Digital that ‘this is not an investigative report. It is a political blood libel disguised as a U.N. document. This commission reaches its conclusions before examining the facts and repeatedly publishes reports that serve one purpose only: to vilify Israel. Instead of addressing Hamas' crimes, the October 7 massacre, the hostages, and Hamas' cynical use of children and civilians as human shields, the commission has once again chosen to place Israel in the dock.’...

Anne Bayefsky, President of Human Rights Voices and Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, told Fox News Digital that the COI’s ‘sham ‘inquiry’ makes the totally unjustified claim of legal authority, while at the same time systematically violating every conceivable legal rule of fairness, impartiality, and due process. Since its creation in 2021, every call for submissions, every consultation and every hearing held, has been contrived to take seriously the allegations of only one side – trashing literally millions of data points both historical and current to the contrary.’

She said, ‘the first COI report focused on children…fails to even mention the sickening murders of 9-month-old Kfir Bibas and 4-year-old Ariel Bibas.’ She says that ‘also ignored in the COI report are the hundreds of thousands of Israeli children traumatized by October 7th, by the subsequent mass displacement, and by the excruciating longing for parents absent while defending their country against an inhumane foe.’

Bayefsky complained that though the current COI report ‘was produced weeks ago,’ the COI members ‘deliberately withheld’ the report when appearing before the Human Rights Council last week. ‘They didn’t publish it until June 23, minutes prior to holding a stage-managed press conference designed to avoid accountability for their wild, unverified accusations,’ she claimed..."