Israel

British police has questions to Livni

The police in the UK has invited the former Israeli foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to a hearing. It comes to possible war crimes committed by your government during the first Gaza war.

The Ministry of foreign Affairs in Tel Aviv, reacted indignantly to the British request. “From a close ally such as the United Kingdom, we would have expected a different behavior,” it said.

Livni, currently a member of the Opposition, received the invitation to the “voluntary Interview” with the Gaza war prior to their UK visit this weekend. Prompt a political move has been initiated. After an Intervention by the Israeli foreign Ministry a meeting with the middle East-Secretary of state, Tobias Ellwood Protocol was converted to Seating in a state visit, in order to guarantee Livni diplomatic immunity, Israeli and British media reported.

The liberal politician, Tzipi Livni was from January 2006 to March 2009, foreign Minister of Israel. In 2009, a British court had issued at the request of the Palestinian activists, an arrest warrant against Livni for her role during the Gaza offensive.

“Operation Cast Lead”

The first Gaza war as “Operation cast lead”. The military operation as a response to the years-long bombardment of Israeli cities with Thousands of rockets from the Gaza strip ran from 27. December 2008 to 18. In January 2009, when Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire. Israel gave the number of Palestinians killed with 1166 and speech of 295 civilians among the Victims, a Palestinian human rights organization speaks of in 1417 Killed, including 926 civilians. Also the information about how many of the victims were children.

hf/uh (afp, dpa)