UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on Gaza

[Karmadillo]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0720/631936-gaza/

The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting at 2.30am to discuss the situation in Gaza.

Diplomats said the meeting was requested by Jordan following a request from Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas for an immediate session of the council, as the Palestinian death toll on the 13th day of Israel's Gaza offensive rose to 438.

"I am calling for an urgent session tonight of the UN Security Council," he said in a televised speech from the Qatari capital Doha.

"The situation is intolerable," he said, describing the Israeli attacks as "crimes against humanity".

The Arab League has described Israeli attacks on Gaza that have killed at least 100 Palestinians today as a "war crime".

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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

6. "the term "war crime" has become pretty pointless..."

So has the term "Never again" when its proponents act like something out of their oppressors past.

[Fozzledick]

3. If Hamas thought the situation was intolerable they would stop shooting rockets.

Obviously they tolerate the current situation quite well.

The other people living in Gaza not so much, but Hamas doesn't care about them.

[King_David]

4. They already rejected Egypt's cease fire proposal