JERUSALEM, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch slammed the United States and European Union for failing to endorse a U.N. report on Israel's offensive in Gaza.
The failure of the United States and EU to endorse the report on the Israeli military offensive in Gaza shows war violations will be treated with kid gloves, the HRW report published Wednesday said.
South African Judge Richard Goldstone presented his report on the conflict in Gaza to the United Nations Human Rights Council Tuesday.
Goldstone, HRW said, demanded the report's recommendations be endorsed, " including those designed to ensure accountability for serious violations of the laws of war during the Gaza conflict by involving the stature and the clout of the U.N. Security Council," the report said.
The human rights group said while the United States called the report "unbalanced," and "deeply flawed," it failed to provide facts to support its stand.
HRW noted the Swedish ambassador on behalf of the European Union recognized the seriousness of the report but also failed to endorse its conclusions.
Other European countries such as the United Kingdom, France and Germany withheld comment, the rights group said.
