AP misrepresents Israeli flotilla probe co-operation

Just Journalism
25 August '10

An Associated Press article, published in today’s (8/25) Independent under the headline ‘UN official criticises Israel over Flotilla probe’ states that Israel is not co-operating with the inquiry led by the United Nations Human Rights Council into the flotilla incident. However, it does not explain that Israel is working with another UN inquiry, also mentioned in the article, and that Israel regards the UNHRC as politically motivated against it.

While the article is correct in stating that Israel is refusing to co-operate with the Human Rights Council’s inquiry, it simply notes at the end that ‘Another UN panel under New Zealand's ex-prime minister Geoffrey Palmer and Colombia's ex-president Alvaro Uribe is also examining the incident’. It does not include the fact that Israel is co-operating with that inquiry, which was established by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon – as reported in this AP article. Israel has also set up both a civilian inquiry with a wide ranging mandate, monitored by international observers, including Lord Trimble, and a military inquiry to investigate the incident.

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