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June 22, 2015

'Unbiased' Head of UN Gaza Commission Refuses to Call Hamas a Terrorist Group

Chairperson of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 war in Gaza, Mary McGowan Davis, and commission member Doudou Dienne (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
"The head of the United Nations Human Rights Council commission on the Gaza war [Mary McGowan Davis] rejected claims of bias by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday...

'I think we tried very hard to be even-handed, and there's no bias at all in the report,' she added...

McGowan Davis also dismissed a question about whether she considered Hamas a terror group. 'I am not going to go into that,' she told Channel 2. 'They obviously didn't abide by the rules of international law. We use that label a lot in my country and I try to stay away from labels like 'terrorists'..."
Date
June 22, 2015
Title
Head of UN Gaza Commission Rejects Claims of Bias, The Times of Israel
Author(s)
Jonathan Beck
Original Source
http://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-un-gaza-commission-rejects-claims-of-bias/
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