United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict

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The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict was a UN-appointed inquiry led by Justice Richard Goldstone that investigated alleged violations of international law by Israel and Palestinian armed groups during the 2008–2009 Gaza War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf UN human rights investigation
United Nations fact-finding mission
international commission of inquiry
alsoKnownAs Goldstone Mission NERFINISHED
Goldstone Report NERFINISHED
United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report) NERFINISHED
appliesToEvent Gaza War (2008–2009) NERFINISHED
Operation Cast Lead NERFINISHED
appointedBy United Nations Human Rights Council NERFINISHED
authorizedBy United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution S-9/1 NERFINISHED
chairperson Richard Goldstone NERFINISHED
conflict 2008–2009 Gaza War NERFINISHED
countryInvestigated State of Israel NERFINISHED
criticizedBy Government of Israel NERFINISHED
United States government officials
endTime 2009-09
finding concluded that both Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups had committed violations of international law
found evidence suggesting the commission of war crimes by Israeli forces
found evidence suggesting the commission of war crimes by Palestinian armed groups
focus alleged crimes against humanity
alleged war crimes
headOfMission Richard Goldstone NERFINISHED
jurisdiction situations arising in the territory of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
language English
legalBasis international human rights law
international humanitarian law
location Gaza Strip NERFINISHED
Israel NERFINISHED
West Bank NERFINISHED
mandate investigate all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the context of the military operations in Gaza and southern Israel
member Christine Chinkin NERFINISHED
Desmond Travers NERFINISHED
Hina Jilani NERFINISHED
Richard Goldstone NERFINISHED
output Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict NERFINISHED
partyInvestigated Hamas NERFINISHED
Palestinian armed groups in Gaza NERFINISHED
publisher United Nations NERFINISHED
recommendation recommended possible referral to the International Criminal Court if credible investigations were not carried out
recommended that parties conduct independent and credible investigations into alleged violations
reportPublicationDate 2009-09-15
reportTo United Nations General Assembly NERFINISHED
United Nations Human Rights Council NERFINISHED
scope events between 27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009
startTime 2009-04
subjectOf intense international controversy
supportedBy many human rights organizations
website https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/special-sessions/session9/fact-finding-mission NERFINISHED

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
Description of subject: The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict was a UN-appointed inquiry led by Justice Richard Goldstone that investigated alleged violations of international law by Israel and Palestinian armed groups during the 2008–2009 Gaza War.

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Operation Cast Lead investigatedBy United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
Goldstone Report title United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
this entity surface form: Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict