Israel Fires Back at UN Report Accusing It and Hamas of Violating World Law in Gaza War

A UN report released Monday found both Israel and Palestinians committed "serious violations" of international law and possible war crimes in last summer's seven-week battle in Gaza, a finding Israel swiftly denounced...

Israel swiftly moved to dispute the report's findings...

Last week's report, by the High Level International Military Group, a consortium of some of the world's leading military experts, laid much of the blame on the Palestinian side...

Gen. Klaus Naumann, former chief of staff of the German armed forces and chairman of the NATO Military Committee, who led the fact-finding mission on which the HLIMG report is based, said Israel paid a price for following the law.

'A measure of the seriousness with which Israel took its moral duties and its responsibilities under the laws of armed conflict is that in some cases Israel's scrupulous adherence to the laws of war cost Israeli soldiers' and civilians' lives,' Naumann said."