Foreign Ministry: UN report biased, politicized

The Foreign Ministry responded to a report by three UN-appointed human rights experts that Israeli forces violated international law when they raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla by saying the Human Rights Council had a "biased, politicized and extremist approach."

"Israel is a democratic and law abiding country that carefully observes international law and, when need be, knows how to investigate itself," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website. "That is how Israel has always acted, and that is the way in which investigations were conducted following Operation Cast Lead, launched to protect the inhabitants of southern Israel from rockets and terror attacks carried out by Hamas from Gaza." (AP)