Eighteen years ago the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu to head a fact-finding mission into Israeli military operations in Gaza. 

The council expressed grave concern “at the continued violation by the occupying power, Israel, of the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory”, describing its military attacks as “a collective punishment of the civilians”. ..

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