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    Gaza protest deaths: Israel may have committed war crimes – UN

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    Israeli soldiers may have committed war crimes while responding to Palestinian protests on the border last year, UN human rights experts have said.

    A commission of inquiry investigated the killing of 189 Palestinians between 30 March and 31 December 2018.

    It found reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli snipers shot at children, medics and journalists, even though they were clearly recognisable as such.

    's acting foreign minister said it rejected the findings outright.

    “The Human Rights Council's Theatre of the Absurd has once again produced a report that is hostile, mendacious and biased against Israel,” Israel Katz said.

    “No-one can deny israel the right to self-defence and the obligation to protect its citizens and its borders against violent attacks.”

    Palestinians have been taking part in protests along the border since last March as part of a campaign, dubbed “the Great March of Return”, in support of the declared right of Palestinian refugees to return to their ancestral homes in what is now israel.

    The campaign has been organised by the militant Hamas movement – which dominates Gaza and is designated a terrorist group by Israel – and other groups.

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