ROLE OF UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS COMMITTED BY ISRAEL TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE DURING ISRAEL'S ATTACK TO GAZA STRIP IN DECEMBER 2008

This undergraduate thesis tried to discuss about the role of UN Human Rights Council in addressing human rights violations that occurred in Palestine, especially in Gaza Strip at the end of 2008. The human rights issues has become an interesting issues in modern era related with the international organization which is concerns about the human rights promotion and protection

The role of UN Human Rights Council in addressing human rights violations that occurred in Palestine, especially in Gaza Strip at the end of 2008 until the beginning of 2009, are very interesting to be watched, because we can see how UN board could be effective or not when the problems are related with “super-power” country. In this case, Israel which is known as the best ally of United States and some European countries facing a problem related with human rights abuses, during their attack to Gaza. In this report will show some evidence from some sources about the human rights violations that has done by Israel during the war. This research paper will see and find, is it effective or not an intergovernmental body like UN in doing their jobs and function when they should dealing with Israel. The end of this research paper will show us about the incapability of UN Human Rights Council especially, to give real punishment to Israel about the human rights violations that have been done.