Israel and Hamas to face investigation for possible war crimes following 11 days of fighting

Israel dismisses the investigation and refuses to cooperate, while Hamas welcomes the move by the United Nations .

 Israel and Hamas are going to be investigated for potential war crimes after the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution in favour of action. 

The resolution was gone by 29 votes to four at a session in Geneva; the united kingdom , France and Japan were among those that voted against it. A commission of inquiry will now be established to seem into "all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict". Israel's foreign ministry strongly dismissed the investigation and said it might not cooperate with a body that has "built in anti-Israel majority, guided by hypocrisy and absurdity". "Any resolution that fails to condemn the firing of over 4,300 rockets by a terror organisation at Israeli civilians, or maybe to say the fear organisation Hamas, is nothing quite an ethical failure and a stain on the international community and therefore the UN." Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said Hamas was a "jihadist, genocidal, terrorist organisation" and accused the group of using Palestinian civilians as human shields to hide its rockets. The us , which didn't participate within the vote, has said it "deeply regrets" the move because it "threatens to imperil" recent progress within the region. Hamas successively welcomed the investigation, describing the group's actions as "legitimate resistance" against Israel. Hamas is taken into account a terrorist organisation by Israel, the UK, the US, European Union and other powers. Israel is accused of using disproportionate and indiscriminate force after 270 Palestinians, including 68 children, were killed during the recent 11 days of violence. Hamas rockets killed 10 Israelis, although thousands of rockets were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome defense system . It is not the primary time the UN Human Rights Council has voted to research Israeli conduct in conflicts against Hamas. Similar resolutions were passed in 2012 and 2014 but Israel refused access to the investigating teams and might do so again.