""The decision made today at the UN Human Rights Council is a farce, and every decent person everywhere should reject it.".
Instead of investigating Hamas, which is committing a double war crime by firing rockets at Israeli civilians while hiding behind Palestinian civilians, the Human Rights Council calls for an investigation into Israel, which is making unprecedented efforts to prevent harm to Palestinian civilians, by distributing leaflets, making phone calls, and sending text messages.
The Human Rights Council should begin investigating Hamas' decision to turn hospitals into operational bases and schools into weapons depots, and to place missile batteries near playgrounds, private homes, and mosques.
By failing to condemn Hamas's systematic use of human shields and blaming Israel for deaths caused by Hamas' grotesque policy of using human shields, the Council sends a clear message to Hamas and terrorist organizations everywhere that using civilians as human shields is an effective strategy.
Like the investigation that led to the infamous Goldstone Report, a report whose author ultimately retracted what he wrote, an investigation by a custodial court will end in a predictable manner.
The expected result is the defamation of Israel, and Hamas's wider use of human shields. Those who will pay the price will not only be Israelis, but also Palestinians, as Hamas redoubles its efforts to exploit them as human shields in the future.
