UN rights body votes for inquiry on Gaza
The UN's top human rights body has voted to set up a commission of inquiry to look into a deadly crackdown on protesters in Gaza by Israeli forces.
The UN Human Rights Council, meeting in a special session Friday in Geneva, voted 29-2 with 14 abstentions to back a resolution that also condemned "the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force by the Israeli occupying forces against Palestinian civilians."
Israel condemned the resolution, which was put forward by a group of countries including Pakistan. The United States decried it as an example of a biased focus on Israel by the council. Both lamented that it didn't mention Gaza's Hamas rulers, whom Israel blames for the violence.
The commission of inquiry will be asked to produce a final report next March.
