{"id":256934,"date":"2021-08-12T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=256934"},"modified":"2021-08-17T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:00:34","slug":"human-rights-watch-statement-on-gaza-conflict-casualties-august-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/human-rights-watch-statement-on-gaza-conflict-casualties-august-2021-daily-press-briefing-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch Statement on Gaza Conflict Casualties &#8211; 12 August 2021 Daily Press Briefing \u2013 (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>12 AUGUST 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today\u2019s noon briefing by St\u00e9phane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Questions and Answers<\/u><\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Question<\/u>:\u00a0 My second question: \u00a0Human Rights Watch issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/08\/12\/palestinian-rockets-may-killed-civilians-israel-gaza\">statement<\/a> today, and it says that it has investigated the three Israeli raids during the aggression on Gaza in May and these three raids killed 62\u00a0civilians with no military targets around the area, which they qualify as war crimes.\u00a0 It also, in the same statement, called on the firing of rockets by the Palestinians as also war crimes, and they should be also investigated by ICC [International Criminal Court].\u00a0 Do you subscribe to the crime \u2026 finding of the Human Rights Watch breach \u2026 breach?<\/p>\n<p><u>Spokesman<\/u>:\u00a0 Look, Human Rights Watch says what it says.\u00a0 I think if you look back to the period of the most recent conflict in Gaza, we were very clear in condemning any targeting or deaths of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For information media. 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