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The United Nations
Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict was established by the United Nations Human Rights Council
after the Gaza War
(27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009) as an independent international fact-finding mission
to investigate violations of international human rights law
and international humanitarian law
throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
particularly in the Gaza Strip, in connection with the conflict. The executive summary of the report is available here . Mission Members The
Mission was headed by Justice Richard
Goldstone, former member of the South African Constitutional
Court and former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for
the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The
three other mission members were: Professor
Christine Chinkin, Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and
Political Science and a member of the High Level Fact Finding Mission to Beit
Hanoun (2008); Ms.
Hina Jilani, Advocate
of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and former Special Representative of the
Secretary General on Human Rights Defenders and a member of the International
Commission of Inquiry on Darfur (2004); and
Colonel Desmond Travers,
a former officer in the Irish Armed Forces and member of the Board of Directors
of the Institute for International Criminal Investigations. Resources:
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