'SERANGAN Sembarangan & yg tidak seimbang': Amnesty Menuduh ISRAEL Melakukan Jenayah perang GAZA . . .

g2 - Tentera Israel melakukan "tidak seimbang" dan "sembarangan" serangan yang membunuh "puluhan orang awam" di bandar Rafah, Gaza, kata Amnesty International dalam satu laporan yang segera membanting sebagai "kelemahan asas" oleh Israel.

Antara 135 dan 200 orang awam terbunuh di Rafah, bandar paling selatan di Semenanjung Gaza dalam penggunaan intensif senjata api oleh Israel, yang berlangsung dari 1 Ogos hingga 4, 2014, menurut laporan Amnesty International yang digelar 'Black Friday: pembunuhan beramai-ramai di Rafah' .

"Terdapat bukti kukuh bahawa tentera Israel yang melakukan tidak seimbang, atau jika tidak sembarangan, serangan yang mengorbankan puluhan orang awam di rumah mereka, di jalan-jalan dan di dalam kenderaan dan mencederakan banyak lagi," kata Amnesty, yang bersama-sama dengan Arkitek Forensik, satu pasukan penyelidikan dari Goldsmiths, University of London telah menyampaikan pembinaan semula terperinci peristiwa-peristiwa di bandar.

Philip Luther @philipluther

Black Friday film: the story of a soldier's capture, a secret military order and price paid by Palestinian civilians (Filem Black Friday: kisah penangkapan seorang askar, perintah tentera rahsia dan harga yang dibayar oleh orang awam Palestin)

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‘Disproportionate & indiscriminate attacks’: Amnesty accuses Israel of Gaza war crimes . . .

Israeli forces committed “disproportionate” and “indiscriminate” attacks that killed “scores of civilians” in the city of Rafah, Gaza, Amnesty International said in a report which was immediately slammed as “fundamentally flawed” by Israel.

Between 135 and 200 civilians were killed in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip in an intensive use of firepower by Israel, which lasted from August 1 to 4, 2014, according to Amnesty International report dubbed ‘Black Friday: Carnage in Rafah’. 

“There is overwhelming evidence that Israeli forces committed disproportionate, or otherwise indiscriminate, attacks which killed scores of civilians in their homes, on the streets and in vehicles and injured many more,” says the Amnesty, which together with Forensic Architecture, a research team from Goldsmiths, University of London have presented a detailed reconstruction of the events in the city.

The blast of an Israeli air strike, seen from Khirbet al-‘Adas, eastern Rafah, on 1 August 2014 at 7.33am. (Bunyi letupan dari serangan udara Israel, dilihat dari Khirbet al-'Adas, timur Rafah, pada 1 Ogos 2014 pada 07:33am) © Private.

READ MORE: Over 100 Gaza civilians killed overnight as Israel searches for missing IDF soldier (Lebih 100 orang awam Gaza dibunuh semalaman sebagai Israel untuk mencari askar IDF yang hilang)

Pemerhati yang mengatakan bahawa pelanggaran yang dilakukan oleh IDF termasuk "berulang kali menembak meriam dan senjata lain tidak tepat bahan letupan di kawasan awam padat dengan penduduk semasa serangan" di Rafah.

"Dalam beberapa kes, terdapat tanda-tanda bahawa mereka terus melepaskan tembakan dan membunuh orang awam, termasuk orang-orang yang melarikan diri."

Menurut Amnesty, tentera Israel yang melakukannya "pelanggaran serius undang-undang kemanusiaan antarabangsa dan merupakan pelanggaran kubur Konvensyen Geneva Keempat atau jenayah perang yang lain."

"Komander tentera Israel dan pegawai boleh beroperasi dalam keyakinan bahawa mereka tidak mungkin untuk dipertanggungjawabkan kerana melanggar undang-undang antarabangsa kerana iklim yang mencakupi semua aspek sewenang-wenangnya yang telah wujud selama beberapa dekad. Ini adalah kerana, sebahagian besar, kekurangan siasatan bebas, tidak berat sebelah dan berkesan."

Walau bagaimanapun, pihak berkuasa Israel "gagal untuk menjalankan siasatan yang tulen, berkesan, dan segera ke dalam mana-mana dakwaan pelanggaran serius undang-undang kemanusiaan antarabangsa."

The watchdog says that violations committed by IDF include “repeatedly firing artillery and other imprecise explosive weapons in densely populated civilian areas during the attacks” on Rafah.

“In some cases, there are indications that they directly fired at and killed civilians, including people fleeing.”

AmnestyInternational✔@AmnestyOnline

In #Rafah, 2014, Israel committed possible war crimes that must be investigated (Dalam #Rafah 2014, Israel melakukan jenayah perang mungkin yang perlu disiasat): http://amn.st/6013BELsD  #50Days4Gaza

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According to Amnesty, Israeli forces performed “serious violations of international humanitarian law and constituted grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention or other war crimes.”

“Israeli army commanders and officers can operate in confidence that they are unlikely to be held accountable for violations of international law due to the pervasive climate of impunity that has existed for decades. This is due, in large part, to the lack of independent, impartial and effective investigations.”

A Palestinian family returning to their home in eastern Rafah during the ceasefire, with the ruins of the house of the Abu Omran family in the background, on 1 August 2014 around 8am. (Sebuah keluarga Palestin pulang ke rumah mereka di timur Rafah selama gencatan senjata itu, dengan runtuhan rumah keluarga Abu Omran di latar belakangnya, pada 1 Ogos 2014 sekitar pukul 8 pagi) © Private.

However, Israeli authorities “failed to conduct genuine, effective, and prompt investigations into any of the allegations of serious violations of international humanitarian law.”

READ MORE: ‘I wish they’re birds in heaven’: Families of kids killed on Gaza beach grieve 1 year on ('Saya ingin mereka burung2 di syurga': Keluarga kanak-kanak dibunuh di pantai Gaza ke atas 1 tahun bersedih)

Amnesty International, bagaimanapun, tidak dibenarkan di Gaza Ogos 2014 oleh pihak berkuasa Israel dan tidak boleh ada sekarang, tetapi kumpulan ini telah berjaya mengumpul maklumat dari saksi serangan, Philip Luther, pengarah Amnesty Timur Tengah ini dan program Afrika Utara, memberitahu RT.

"Kita melihat beratus-ratus gambar, beratus-ratus klip video serta mengenal pasti imej satelit yang mempunyai resolusi yang sangat tinggi sebagai menunjukkan kemusnahan di Rafah kerana ianya berlaku."

Menurut Eyal Weizman, penyiasat utama Architecture Forensik, kumpulannya masuk ke dalam zonperang atau tempat-tempat di mana hak asasi manusia telah dicabuli atau jenayah perang didakwa telah berlaku dan "melihat kesan keganasan yang mati meninggalkan pada bangunan."

"Satu model 3-D Rafah membolehkan kita untuk masa setiap gambar yang kita lihat tanda pada bayang-bayang. Anda boleh imej rujukan silang dan lihat di mana serangan itu berlaku, "katanya kepada RT.

'Histeria kanak-kanak, kemusnahan & cendawan awan': orang awam Rafah menggambarkan serangan

Amnesty bercakap dengan ramai orang awam Rafah yang pulang ke rumah mereka sebelum serangan sebagai Israel mengumumkan gencatan senjata di Semenanjung Gaza. Mereka menyifatkan pesawat, helikopter dan hujan tembakan  meriam di pejalan kaki, kereta dan juga ambulans yang cuba untuk membantu mangsa yang tercedera.

"Anda melihat histeria anak-anak, kemusnahan, dan cendawan awan, dan anda cuba untuk mendapatkan sejauh dari mereka yang anda boleh," kata bapa kepada dua Wa'el al-Namla.

Satu lagi orang awam Saleh Abu Mohsen diberitahu bahawa apabila serangan bermula rakyat "telah melarikan diri dari rumah mereka dalam ketakutan."

"Orang ramai berkaki ayam, wanita telah berjalan dengan kepala mereka ditemui, ianya merupakan satu kejadian yang sangat sukar," katanya.

Seorang ibu bersedih Abdel-Rahim Lafi menerangkan kepada pemerhati bagaimana anaknya mati di hadapan beliau semasa serangan

"Anak saya Yehya dan saya tingalkan rumah. Kami sampai ke bulatan Abu Youssef al-Najjar apabila peluru berpandu pertama jatuh kira-kira 13 meter di hadapan kita , , , saya terjatuh dan cedera di kaki kanan saya. Apabila saya melihat sebelah saya saya dapati anak saya. Dia memandang ke arah saya untuk saat dan meninggal dunia serta-merta selepas itu."

Laporan Israel mengutuk  Amnesty sebagai 'kelemahan asas'

Kementerian Luar Israel telah menyelar laporan Amnesty International kepada jenayah IDF di Gaza sebagai 'kelemahan asas", sambil menambah bahawa" sekali lagi "pemerhati telah menunjukkan" obsessiveness kompulsif ke arah Israel."

"Metodologi bahawa laporan itu adalah berdasarkan juga kelemahan asas, dan membawa ke dalam standard profesional soalan serius Amnesty," kata kenyataan kementerian itu, sambil menambah ia digunakan "testimoni tidak disokong" rakyat Palestin.

Laporan itu tidak mengambil kira "apa-apa berat sebelah berpotensi atau paksaan oleh pihak berkuasa Hamas, atau hanya hakikat bahawa individu yang terperangkap di tengah-tengah pertempuran adalah terhad dalam keupayaan mereka untuk mengetahui sebab-sebab, kaedah dan niat pihak-pihak yang berperang," tambah kementerian.

Amnesty International, however, wasn’t allowed to Gaza in August 2014 by Israeli authorities and is not allowed there now, but the group has managed to collect the information from witnesses of the attacks, Philip Luther, director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa program, told RT.

“We looked at hundreds of photographs, hundreds of video clips as well as identifying satellite images that had very high resolution as showed the destruction in Rafah as it was taking place.”

According to Eyal Weizman, principal investigator of Forensic Architecture, his group goes into the warzones or places where human rights were violated or war crimes were alleged to have taken place and “look at traces the dead violence leaves on building.”

“A 3-D model of Rafah allow us to time every photograph in which we see a shadow mark on. You can cross-reference images and view where the strike happened,” he told RT.

‘Hysteria of children, destruction & mushroom clouds’: Rafah civilians describe attacks

Amnesty spoke to many Rafah civilians who returned to their homes before the strikes as Israel announced a ceasefire on the Gaza Strip. They described drones, helicopters and artillery raining fire at pedestrians, cars and even ambulances which were attempting to help the wounded.

“You see the hysteria of the children, destruction, and mushroom clouds, and you try to get as far away from them as you can,” said father of two Wa’el al-Namla.

A collage of photographs shows the aftermath of the Israeli air strike on al-Tannur, in Rafah. © Al Mezan Center for Human Rights. (Collage photographs menunjukkan selepas serangan udara Israel ke atas al-Tannur, di Rafah. © Al Pusat Hak Asasi Manusia Mezan).

One more civilian Saleh Abu Mohsen told that when attacks started people “were running away from their homes in terror.”

“People were barefoot, women were running with their heads uncovered, it was a very difficult scene,” he added.

A grieving mother Abdel-Rahim Lafi described to the watchdog how her son died right in front of her during the assault

“My son Yehya and I left the house. We reached the Abu Youssef al-Najjar roundabout when the first missile fell about 13 meters ahead of us… I fell and was injured in my right leg. When I looked next to me I found my son. He looked up at me for seconds and died immediately after.”

A Pléiades satellite image of eastern Rafah, taken on 14 August 2014 at 11.50am, is marked with air strike craters (large red dots) and artillery craters (small red dots) and the resulting intensity of attacks (shades of red). © CNES 2014, Distribution AIRBUS DS, all rights reserved. (Imej satelit Pleiades timur Rafah, yang diambil pada 14 Ogos 2014 pada 11:50, ditandakan dengan kawah serangan udara (titik merah besar) dan kawah meriam (titik merah kecil) dan intensiti yang terhasil daripada serangan (warna merah). © CNES 2014, Pengedaran Airbus DS, semua hak terpelihara).

Israel slams Amnesty report as ‘fundamentally flawed’

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has slammed the Amnesty International report on IDF crimes in Gaza as ‘fundamentally flawed”, adding that “once again” the watchdog has shown “its compulsive obsessiveness toward Israel.”

“The methodology that the report is based upon is also fundamentally flawed, and brings into serious question Amnesty’s professional standards,” said the statement from the ministry, adding that it used “uncorroborated testimonies” of Palestinians.

The report doesn’t take into consideration “any potential biases or coercion by Hamas authorities, or simply the fact that individuals caught in the middle of combat are limited in their capacity to know the reasons, methodologies and intentions of the fighting parties,” added the ministry.

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Bahagian pesawat Madagascar milik Boeing 777 - pegawai Malaysia

Police carry a piece of debris from an unidentified aircraft found in the coastal area of Saint-Andre de la Reunion, in the east of the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, on July 29, 2015. (Polis membawa sekeping serpihan dari sebuah pesawat yang tidak dikenali ditemui di kawasan pantai Saint-Andre de la Reunion, di timur pulau Lautan Hindi Perancis La Reunion, pada 29 Julai 2015. © Yannick Pitou/AFP)

g2 - Pegawai Malaysia telah mengesahkan bahawa nombor pada bahagian pesawat yang ditemui pada La Reunion Island tergolong dalam Boeing 777, Agence France-Presse melaporkan. Setakat ini, bagaimanapun, tidak ada maklumat yang ianya milik hilang Malaysia Airlines MH370 penerbangan.

Sekeping 2 meter panjang serpihan ditemui Rabu oleh penjelasan orang-orang laluan di sepanjang pantai La Reunion, sebuah pulau di Lautan Hindi lepas pantai Afrika tenggara.

Pulau Reunion adalah wilayah Perancis dan elemen yang ditemui sedang dihantar ke Perancis Toulouse untuk diperiksa di kemudahan DGA, pusat terkemuka di Eropah untuk analisis bangkai pesawat yang bekerja di bawah Kementerian Pertahanan Perancis, AP melaporkan.

Pada hari Khamis, Timbalan Menteri Pengangkutan Malaysia Abdul Aziz Kaprawi berkata: "Ia adalah hampir pasti bahawa flaperon adalah dari sebuah pesawat Boeing 777 ketua penyiasat kami di sini memberitahu saya ini.".

Madagascar aircraft part belongs to Boeing 777 - Malaysian official . . .

Malaysian official has confirmed that the number on the aircraft part found on La Reunion Island belongs to a Boeing 777, Agence France-Presse reports. So far, however, there is no information that it belongs to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The two-meter long piece of debris was found Wednesday by people clearing trails along the coastline of La Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern African coast.

The island of Reunion is a French territory and the found element is being sent to France’s Toulouse to be inspected at the DGA facility, Europe's leading center for aircraft wreckage analysis working under the French Defense Ministry, AP reports.

On Thursday, Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said: "It is almost certain that the flaperon is from a Boeing 777 aircraft. Our chief investigator here told me this."

READ MORE: Disappearance of MH 370 flight: The trillion dollar question to the US and its intelligence services (Kehilangan dari penerbangan MH 370: Persoalan trilion dolar ke Amerika Syarikat dan perkhidmatan perisikan)

"Ia telah diliputi siput, jadi seseorang akan mengatakan ia telah berada dalam air masa yang lama," AFP memetik seorang saksi sebagai berkata.

“It was covered in shells, so one would say it had been in the water a long time,” AFP quoted one witness as saying.

Agence France-Presse✔@AFP

Investigators probe plane wreckage for link to missing #MH370 flight http://u.afp.com/Zwbm 

7:59 AM - 30 Jul 2015

Menteri Pengangkutan Malaysia Liow Tiong Lai kepada pemberita di PBB bahawa beliau telah menghantar satu pasukan untuk menyiasat bangkai. "Apa sahaja bangkai mendapati keperluan untuk terus disahkan sebelum kami boleh mengesahkan bahawa ia adalah milik MH370," katanya.

Sementara itu, seorang pegawai tinggi Amerika Syarikat yang tidak disebutkan namanya disebut oleh AP menyatakan bahawa penyiasat keselamatan udara mempunyai "tahap keyakinan yang tinggi" bahawa serpihan itu dari Boeing 777, yang merupakan model yang sama dengan pesawat Malaysia Airlines.

Menurut pegawai itu, penyiasat keselamatan udara, termasuk seorang penyiasat Boeing, mengenal pasti sekeping 2 meter sebagai "flaperon" dari pinggir belakang sayap.

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai told reporters at the United Nations that he has dispatched a team to investigate the wreckage. “Whatever wreckage found needs to be further verified before we can ever confirm that it is belonged to MH370,” he said.

Meanwhile, an unnamed US official quoted by AP stated that air safety investigators have a“high degree of confidence” that the debris is from a Boeing 777, which is the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane.

According to the official, air safety investigators, including a Boeing investigator, identified the two-meter piece as a “flaperon” from the trailing edge of a wing.

READ MORE: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Missing plane search timeline (Penerbangan Malaysia Airlines MH370: Garis masa carian hilang pesawat)

BFMTV✔@BFMTV

Débris d'avion retrouvé à La Réunion: la piste du vol MH370 pas exclue (Pesawat serpihan ditemui di Reunion: penerbangan MH370 landasan yang tidak dikecualikan) http://www.bfmtv.com/societe/debris-d-avion-retrouve-a-la-reunion-la-piste-du-vol-mh370-pas-exclue-904750.html …

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Sementara itu, yang rapat rasmi Perancis untuk siasatan mengesahkan bahawa penguatkuasaan undang-undang Perancis kini di laman ini memeriksa objek diselamatkan.

Sama ada Amerika Syarikat serta pegawai-pegawai Perancis mendedahkan nama-nama mereka kerana mereka tidak diberi kuasa untuk bercakap secara terbuka mengenai perkara itu lagi.

Meanwhile, a French official close to the investigation confirmed that French law enforcement is currently at the site examining the salvaged object. 

Neither the US nor the French officials revealed their names as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter yet. 

READ MORE: MH370 was 'shot down by US military', claims former French airline boss (MH370 telah 'ditembak jatuh oleh tentera Amerika Syarikat, dakwa bekas pengurus syarikat penerbangan Perancis)

Jika spekulasi membuktikan betul, ini akan menjadi pembangunan utama yang pertama dalam kehilangan misteri penerbangan MH370 sejak ia hilang pada 8 Mac, 2014, dengan 239 orang di atas kapal. Pesawat itu hilang tidak lama selepas berlepas dari ibu negara Malaysia Kuala Lumpur apabila ia menyimpang dari laluan yang dirancang ke Beijing.

Selepas menjalankan carian antarabangsa secara besar-besaran di Lautan India Selatan, Laut China, dan Teluk Thailand, penyiasat datang kosong, dan menyimpulkan bahawa pesawat itu mungkin diterbangkan beribu-ribu kilometer arah yang tidak diketahui sebelum terhempas.

If speculations prove correct, this would be the first major development in flight MH370’s mysterious disappearance since it vanished on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. The plane went missing shortly after taking off from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur when it deviated from its planned route to Beijing.  

After conducting a massive international search in the South Indian Ocean, the China Sea, and the Gulf of Thailand, investigators came up empty, concluding that the plane had likely flown thousands of kilometers in an unknown direction before crashing.

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MOSCOW memerlukan penglibatan besar PBB pada siasatan kemalangan MH17 , bukan 'permainan propaganda POLITIK'

g2 - Majlis Keselamatan PBB telah mengadakan rundingan berkenaan dengan penyiasatan yang menjatuhkan penerbangan Malaysia Airlines MH17 di timur Ukraine tahun lepas, dengan ahli-ahli majlis, walaupun terdapat beberapa perbezaan pendapat dan tekanan propaganda, mencari titik persamaan.

"Saya berpuas hati dengan hasil perbincangan itu, walaupun sudah tentu kita memang mempunyai perbezaan pendapat dengan rakan-rakan Barat kami," utusan PBB Vitaly Churkin memberitahu media selepas mesyuarat Isnin ini. "Media ini sedang mewujudkan suasana tekanan propaganda berat. Tetapi meskipun keadaan ini, saya rasa keinginan di kalangan Majlis Keselamatan untuk mengelakkan menyertai dalam propaganda, dan bukannya untuk membantu siasatan yang akan membawa kepada perbicaraan mahkamah."

Menurut Churkin, Moscow menyampaikan dokumen draf sendiri yang bertujuan untuk "memperkukuhkan" siasatan yang sedang dijalankan oleh pakar-pakar Belanda, serta mengeksploitasi "potensi yang terletak pada resolusi 2166."

Walaupun tiada keputusan kukuh telah dicapai semasa sesi pintu tertutup, duta-duta, menurut Churkin, tinggal rundingan dengan niat untuk terus mendapatkannya "penyebut biasa" dan mungkin menggabungkan draf Rusia dan Malaysia.

Awal bulan ini draf resolusi Malaysia menggesa Majlis Keselamatan PBB untuk mewujudkan tribunal antarabangsa, dan untuk mengklasifikasikan kemalangan itu sebagai ancaman kepada keamanan dan keselamatan. Semasa perbincangan tertutup antara majlis 15 anggota kedua-dua draf, Churkin berkata delegasi Rusia disimpan menegaskan bahawa penciptaan tribunal antarabangsa bukan sahaja terlalu awal tetapi juga tidak ditetapkan dalam Piagam PBB.

"Kami terus mengulangi satu perkara yang benar-benar jelas, bahawa Majlis Keselamatan PBB tidak boleh melibatkan diri dalam penciptaan mahkamah jenayah, sebagai inisiatif Malaysia memerlukan. Ia bukan sebagai hak berkanun Majlis Keselamatan untuk mewujudkan mahkamah jenayah dan membawa mereka di bawah tajuk ancaman kepada keselamatan antarabangsa, "kata Churkin.

Churkin berkata walaupun "beberapa polemik" sememangnya telah mendengar daripada "rakan-rakan Barat" semasa perbahasan hari ini, ia adalah penting bahawa Majlis Keselamatan tidak melibatkan diri dalam "permainan propaganda politik" daripada membuat langkah-langkah nyata untuk menyiasat tragedi itu.

Berputar Presiden Majlis, New Zealand Duta Gerard van Bohemen agak bersetuju dengan penilaian Churkin yang memanggil sebagai "Perbincangan sangat positif."

"Terdapat sokongan yang kuat di dalam bilik untuk penubuhan tribunal. Rusia sudah tentu mempunyai perspektif yang berbeza mengenai perkara ini, "katanya kepada pemberita. Moscow telah dinasihatkan menunggu Keselamatan Lembaga Belanda untuk melepaskan laporan akhir mereka pada kemalangan itu, yang dijangka pada bulan Oktober 2015.

Moscow calls for greater UN involvement in MH17 crash investigation, not ‘political propaganda game’

The UN Security Council has held consultations on the investigation of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine last year, with council members, despite some disagreements and propaganda pressure, seeking common ground.

“I am satisfied with the outcome of the talks, though of course we did have disagreements with our western colleagues,” UN envoy Vitaly Churkin told the press after the Monday meeting. “The media is currently creating an atmosphere of heavy propaganda pressure. But despite this climate, I felt a desire among the Security Council to avoid joining in the propaganda, and instead to help with an investigation that will lead to a court hearing.”

According to Churkin, Moscow presented its own draft document aimed at “strengthening” the investigation which is being conducted by Dutch experts, as well as exploiting “the potential which lies in the resolution of 2166.”

Although no solid results were reached during the closed door session, ambassadors, according to Churkin, left the talks with an intention of continuing to seek a “common denominator” and possibly combining the Russian and Malaysian drafts.

© Igor Tkachenko, Reuters

Earlier this month the Malaysian draft resolution called on the UN Security Council to create an international tribunal, and to classify the crash as a threat to peace and security. During the closed-door discussions among the 15-member council of the two drafts, Churkin said that the Russian delegation kept insisting that the creation of international tribunal was not only premature but also not prescribed in the UN Charter.

READ MORE: ‘Bodies all over’: New MH17 crash site footage minutes after Boeing downing (VIDEO) 

“We kept on repeating a completely obvious thing, that the UN Security Council should not engage in the creation of criminal courts, as the Malaysian initiative calls for. It’s simply not a statutory prerogative of the Security Council to create criminal courts and lead them under the rubric of a threat to international security,” Churkin said.

Churkin said that while “some polemics” were indeed heard from “Western colleagues” during Monday’s debate, it was important that the Security Council did not get involved in the “political propaganda game” instead of making real steps to investigate the tragedy.

READ MORE: Key points of Russian position on flight MH17

Rotating President of the Council, New Zealand Ambassador Gerard van Bohemen somewhat agreed with Churkin's assessment calling it a “very positive discussion.”

“There was strong support in the room for the establishment of a tribunal. Russia of course has a different perspective on this,” he told reporters. Moscow has advised waiting for the Dutch Safety Board to release their final report on the crash, expected in October 2015.

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