UN investigation team hears Palestinian testimonies on Gaza war

The committee, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), spent a week in Jordan after the Tel Aviv regime denied its members entry to the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip, Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported.
 
According to Ibrahim Khreisheh, the Palestinian representative to the UNHRC, the committee, which consists of 15 human rights experts, investigators and technical teams, listened to the testimonies given by bereaved Palestinian families, representatives of Palestinian civil society organizations and UN officials based in the coastal enclave of Gaza.
 
He added that experts will go back to their countries, while the technical team will head to the Swiss city of Geneva to study the testimonies collected in Jordan, noting that the team is due to visit Gaza in January.
 
The committee will listen to the testimonies of Gazan families via videoconference this week.
 
“Only representatives of Palestine and Israel would be allowed to see the final report 48 hours before it’s submitted to the regular session,” Khreisheh said.
 
Israel started its latest war on Gaza in early July. Over 2,100 people died and some 11,000 others were injured in the Israeli war, which ended on August 26 with a truce that took effect after indirect negotiations in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
 
More than 15,500 housing units were also damaged in the attacks while over 2,200 houses were totally destroyed, according to official figures released by Palestinian sources.