BERLIN, May 27 (Bernama) -- Amnesty International on Wednesday lashed out at Israeli ongoing human rights violations, IRNA office in Berlin reported.
Unveiling its annual 2009 report on the global state of human rights at a press briefing here, the head of Germany branch Monika Lueke said there are daily human rights violations, and the Israeli seige of Gaza is an example of breaching human rights.
Todate, some 1.5 million Gaza-based Palestinians have been cut off from vital food supplies and 8,000 North Gazans have no access to water.
Also, at least 27 Palestinians died last year because they could not receive on time medical treatment.
Referring to the 2008/9 Gaza war, Lueke stressed that Israeli military attacks against UN institutions, schools and hospitals constituted a "violation of humanitarian laws of war."
Meanwhile, she hailed the judge Richard Goldstone designated by the United Nations for his report highlighting Israeli war crimes during the war in Gaza.
The 600-page UN report, authored by South African Judge Richard Goldstone, said Israel had deliberately used disproportionate force against Palestinian civilians, and had employed weapons such as white phosphorous that should not be used in heavily populated areas.
Israel did not cooperate with Goldstone's investigation, alleging it was ordered by a UN body with an anti-Israel bias.
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