{"id":181545,"date":"2021-05-27T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/27\/un-rights-body-debates-systematic-discrimination-in-israel-and-palestine"},"modified":"2021-05-27T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:31:07","slug":"un-rights-body-debates-systematic-discrimination-in-israel-and-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/27\/un-rights-body-debates-systematic-discrimination-in-israel-and-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"UN to launch inquiry into \u2018systematic discrimination\u2019 in Israel and Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN rights chief says Israel attacks on Gaza could constitute war crimes and accuses Hamas of firing indiscriminate rockets<\/p><p>The UN\u2019s main human rights body will launch an investigation into \u201csystematic discrimination and repression\u201d in Israel and Palestine, with the aim of identifying what it said were the root causes of recent Gaza bloodshed.<\/p><p>The proposal for unprecedented levels of scrutiny of alleged abuses, called at the request of Muslim states, was passed by the 47-member UN human rights council on Thursday.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/26\/ireland-israel-de-facto-annexation-palestinian-land\">Ireland condemns \u2018de facto annexation\u2019 of Palestinian land by Israel<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/27\/un-rights-body-debates-systematic-discrimination-in-israel-and-palestine\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/27\/un-rights-body-debates-systematic-discrimination-in-israel-and-palestine\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN rights chief says Israel attacks on Gaza could constitute war crimes and accuses Hamas of firing indiscriminate rocketsThe UN\u2019s main human rights body will launch an investigation into \u201csystematic discrimination and repression\u201d in Israel and Palesti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,6,82,1258,2019,111,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182213,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181545\/revisions\/182213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}