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Iran opens international Palestine summit

Iran opens international Palestine summit
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Source: Press TV, 04-03-3009

An international conference in support of Palestinians, which is to focus on ‘Israeli' war crimes in Gaza, has begun in the Iranian capital.

Bringing together legal experts from the world's leading rights groups, the conference started work in Tehran on Wednesday morning.

The two-day event is expected to focus on war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out by ‘Israel' during its three-week military campaign in the Gaza Strip (December, 2008 to January, 2009).

Palestine: Manifestation of Resistance, Gaza: Victim of Crimes welcomes representatives from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Red Cross, UNICEF and the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The participants include senior officials from the main Palestinian groups, such as Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad.

Legal experts, politicians and religious figures who have come together for the conference will discuss ways to bring ‘Israel's' top political and military leaders to trial over the atrocities committed in Gaza.

Discussion on a series of documents, which Iran recently sent to Interpol implicating 15 ‘Israeli' officials, are also expected to be on the agenda.

On Monday, Interpol began studying the request submitted by Iran for the arrest of 15 senior ‘Israeli' officials over war crimes committed during the Gaza offensive.

Iran had referred the case to Interpol on Sunday, calling on the organization to issue an international Red Notice security alert for 15 named individuals, including ‘Israeli' Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, War Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi.

'Israel' has come under heavy international criticism over the way it conducted its military offensive in Gaza. During the onslaught, Tel Aviv targeted schools, mosques, hospitals, UN buildings, journalists and medics.

It flagrantly used banned weapons such as phosphorous bombs against the coastal region's civilian population and prevented aid workers from reaching bombed areas to recover the injured.

The ‘Israeli' military operations in Gaza killed over 1330 Palestinians, injured more than 5,450 people and left over 70,000 homeless. Three ‘Israeli' civilians were killed during the conflict.


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