In an astonishing moment of candor, the Palestinian representative to the UN Human Rights Council—in explaining the high risk of Palestinians being indicted should the International Criminal Court acquire jurisdiction—has admitted that:
- "Each and every" Palestinian missile now being launched against Israeli civilian centers constitutes “a crime against humanity”;
- That, by contrast, Israel’s own response actions in Gaza “followed the legal procedures” because, as Hamas admitted on TV, “the Israelis warned them to evacuate their homes before the bombardment";
- But, “as for the missiles launched from our side, we never warn anyone about where these missiles are about to fall or about the operations we carry out.”
The extraordinary admissions by Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi came in a July 9th interview on Palestinian TV. Click here for video and transcript.
