Gaza war: Israeli strikes may have violated laws of war, UN says

Israel says the UN report into six strikes last year that killed at least 218 people is "flawed”.

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It is the conclusion of a report on what it calls six “emblematic attacks” on residential buildings, a school, refugee camps and a market between 9 October and 2 December last year.

The UN says it has verified that at least 218 people were killed in the incidents and that civilian objects were destroyed.

Israel’s mission in Geneva rejected the UN’s findings as "factually, legally, and methodologically flawed”.

It insisted that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was operating in Gaza in accordance with international law and accused Hamas of unlawfully embedding itself among civilians.

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