{"id":33666,"date":"2019-03-01T03:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33666"},"modified":"2019-03-01T03:23:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:23:34","slug":"six-detained-for-four-days-over-deadly-cairo-train-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33666","title":{"rendered":"Six detained for four days over deadly Cairo train crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"89\">\n<p>\nNEW YORK: Palestinian leaders called on Thursday for Israel to be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court after UN investigators accused Israeli security forces of unlawfully killing 189 Palestinians and injuring more than 6,100 at protests in Gaza last year.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael\u2019s soldiers \u201ckilled and maimed Palestinian demonstrators who did not pose an imminent threat of death or serious injury to others when they were shot, nor were they directly participating in hostilities,\u201d the independent UN panel said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSome of these violations may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity,\u201d said Argentine legal expert Santiago Canton, who led the panel.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe report, covering the period from March 30 to Dec. 31 last year, was based on hundreds of interviews with victims and witnesses, as well as medical records, video and drone footage, and photographs.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe findings confirmed \u201cwhat we have always said, that Israel conducts war crimes against our people in Gaza and the West Bank, including in Jerusalem,\u201d Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said. \u201cThe International Criminal Court should act immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHamas, which controls Gaza, called for Israel to be held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael rejected the report \u201coutright,\u201d with\u00a0 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the rights council, a frequent target of criticism by the Jewish State, had hit \u201cnew records of hypocrisy and lies, out of obsessive hatred of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a further blow to\u00a0Netanyahu, he is to be indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, Israel\u2019s attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, said on Thursday. The long-awaited announcement comes ahead of April 9 elections in which Netanyahu faces a challenge from a centrist political alliance headed by former military chief Benny Gantz.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe prime minister dismissed the charges against him as a politically motivated \u201cwitch-hunt\u201d and vowed to clear his name. \u201cThere is nothing to these allegations,\u201d he said after the attorney general\u2019s statement. \u201cThis entire house of cards will collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Palestinian leaders called on Thursday for Israel to be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court after UN investigators accused Israeli security forces of unlawfully killing 189 Palestinians and injuring more than 6,100 at protests in Gaza last year. Israel\u2019s soldiers \u201ckilled and maimed Palestinian demonstrators who did not pose an imminent threat of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}