国际英语资讯:Spotlight: UNSC condemns massive killing in Gaza, urges independent probe_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: UNSC condemns massive killing in Gaza, urges independent probe

Israel had a responsibility to calibrate its use of force and not to use lethal force except as a last resort, when under imminent threat of death or serious injury, he emphasized.

Reaffirming the right to peaceful protest, the Russian representative said that his country condemned the use of force against civilians.

INVESTIGATION

Karen Pierce, British ambassador to the United Nations, said that "the death toll alone warranted such an inquiry, which should be made public and hold perpetrators to account."

An "independent and transparent investigation" was necessary, including on Israel's use of live fire in such situations and attacks on that country's defense forces.

Riyad Mansour, permanent observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, pointed out that employing such force against civilians could be defined as terrorism.

Rejecting the idea that Palestinians were responsible for their own deaths because they were protesting Israel's actions, he called for a full investigation and questioned why one state had blocked other Council members from demanding independent inquiries into what amounted to a war crime against the Palestinian people.

The United States blocked a Security Council statement drafted Monday that called for an independent investigation into the situation.

Delegates widely condemned the fighting, with Kuwaiti ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi expressing regret that the Council had failed to adopt his delegation's Monday draft resolution.