The United Nations General Assembly will hold an emergency session Friday to discuss the Israel Defense Forces' offensive in the Gaza Strip, at the request of a group of Arab member states.
The session will be held in response to the United States' veto of a Security Council proposal to condemn Israel over a botched shelling operation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun last week, which killed 19 civilians.
No state has the right to veto in an emergency GA session, and the significance of the body's decision is largely declarative.
The UN's top human rights body on Wednesday condemned "gross and systematic" human rights violations by Israel in Gaza and sent a mission to probe the Beit Hanun incident.
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