Speaking at a session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, a Palestinian official charged that Israel is guilty of “military aggression on the Palestinian people and the deliberate killing of unarmed civilians and children.” Israel’s ambassador to Geneva, Ya’akov Levy, defended the nation’s security forces, saying that they had “returned fire only when absolutely necessary.”
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