The right to life has been violated not just through the killings, but also through the lack of an adequate investigation of the killings.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has delivered a scathing report to the UN Human Rights Commission on Israel’s shelling of Beit Hanoun in Gaza in 2006.
The report, leaked on Monday, says the shelling may have been a war crime.
It criticises an Israeli inquiry that concluded that the shelling was due to a flawed artillery system.
The Archbishop also criticised the international community for “failing to fulfil its role in respect of the suffering of the people of Gaza”.
“It is the silence of the international community in the face of what is happening there which most offends. This silence begets complicity,” he said.
