Israel shuns UN rights session on Gaza onslaught

‘Israel has inexplicably shunned a UN Human Rights Council’s special session on the grim situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, and the Israeli military’s devastating offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip last summer.

A source close to the council said on condition of anonymity that Israel’s absence from the meeting in the Swiss city of Geneva on Monday clearly amounted to a boycott.

“We won’t comment on that,” a spokeswoman with the Israeli mission said. The United States also did not take part in Monday’s discussions.’

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