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Prosecute them, says Tutu
13/06/2007 13:04 - (SA)
Geneva - Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Wednesday that Israeli and Palestinian authorities should prosecute people on both sides who attacked civilians in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun and in nearby parts of Israel late last year.
"Regardless of whether the casualties at Beit Hanoun were caused by a mistake, recklessness, criminal negligence or were wilful, those responsible must be held accountable," Tutu told the UN rights body that assigned him to investigate the November 2006 Israeli-Palestinian fighting.
Israel twice declined to grant visas to the Nobel peace laureate and his UN-appointed fact-finding team to investigate the killings of 19 civilians in an Israeli artillery barrage, Tutu said in a report to the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council.
He said he also wanted to investigate the impact of Palestinian Qassam rockets in neighbouring Israel.
He recalled that Israel refused to grant the visas last December and disclosed that he made a second application this year but was again unable to receive Israeli approval.
- AP
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