Liberman says UN panel ‘commits war crimes by rewriting history’

22 June 2015, 2:45 pm

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Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman, who served as foreign minister during Operation Protective Edge, says in response to the UN report that “Israel does not commit war crimes. The UN’s Human Rights Commission and the biased panels it establishes regularly commit crimes against humanity by rewriting history and distorting a reality in which one country fights to protect its children, who are being attacked by rockets fired by a terror organization [hiding behind] where children are found.”

Liberman is the first politician to comment on the report. Earlier today, PM Netanyahu instructed his ministers to refrain from commenting on the report until the Prime Minister’s Office formulates a unified position on the commission’s findings.