The president of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Vojislav Šuc, was chosen to head the probe into the deaths at the Gaza border this summer.
Šuc is also serving as Slovenia’s ambassador to the council.
The other two members of the inquiry are Sara Hossain, a Bangladeshi lawyer educated in the UK, and Kaari Betty Murungi, a lawyer and human rights activist from Kenya.
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem says it has no immediate comment on the members of the panel.
In May, the council voted in favor of creating an “independent, international commission of inquiry” that will be asked to produce a final report on the events at the Gaza border by March 2018.
Israel has slammed the move, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the time calling the vote and the council “irrelevant.”
“The organization that calls itself the Human Rights Council again proved it is a hypocritical and biased body whose purpose is to harm Israel and back terror, but mostly it proved it is irrelevant,” he said. “The State of Israel will continue to defend its citizens and soldiers.”
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