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Top UN Gaza Investigator Hopeful Israeli Leaders Will Be Prosecuted

Independent UN investigator Navi Pillay says she does not think it 'impossible' that Israeli leaders could end up behind bars for what her commission says is a genocide occurring in Gaza (Credit: AFP)

The UN investigator who this week accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza said she sees parallels with the butchery in Rwanda, and that she hopes one day Israeli leaders will be put behind bars.

Navi Pillay, a South African former judge who headed the international tribunal for the 1994 Rwanda genocide and also served as UN human rights chief, acknowledged that justice "is a slow process".

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