UN Gaza should report to ' buried'

2 April 2011 last updated at 22: 14 GMT Israel's 22-day Gaza offensive ended in January 2009, with 1,400 Palestinians and Israelis Israel the UN has 13 dead, war crimes during its 2008-2009 said military offensive in Gaza called cancel a report it may be committed.

The report author, South African Judge Richard Goldstone, said on Friday that new accounts indicating that Israel had not intentionally directed civilians.

He said that if he had known what he now knew, "the Goldstone report would have been another".

Israel's Prime Minister said that the report meant "should the comment to be buried".

Operation cast lead was launched in response to repeated rocket attacks on Israeli territory by militant in Gaza. Some 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, including hundreds of civilians as 13 Israelis.

Hamas criticized

The Goldstone report, published in September 2009, came to the conclusion that the Israeli army and the militant Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which controls Gaza, possible committed potential war crimes and crimes against humanity during the offensive.

The UN appointed expert group under the direction of Mr Goldstone accused Israel of the disproportionate use of force, intentional targeting of civilians and destruction of civilian infrastructure and with people as human shields.

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Israel not intentionally target civilians and its investigative institutions are competent "

end quote Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minster of the report also accused Hamas deliberately against civilians and to try, by rockets on Israeli towns and cities spread terror by burning."

Israel refused to investigate accuse the Panel of is biased and rejected his accusations. It, however, lead independent investigations in more than 400 allegations of misconduct.

An opinion piece in the Washington Post on Friday wrote Mr Goldstone, that its conclusions on Israel have been obviously wrong.

He said the Israeli research recognised by a UN Committee, noted that "civilians not intentionally were targeted as a matter of policy".

He said "Much more today knowing about what is happening in the Gaza war,". "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report another document would."

On Saturday, Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement: "everything we said has been proven to be true."

"Not deliberately target civilians and its investigative institutions are competent Israel, while Hamas fires deliberately at innocent civilians, and is not something to investigate."

"The fact that Goldstone has traced means that the report should be buried once."

Mr. Goldstone noted that Hamas "nothing was done", check their rocket attacks which "deliberately and indiscriminately directed at civilian targets".

There was no immediate response from Hamas.

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Citizen Science App Lets You Report Backyard Discoveries

If you regularly take photos of birds, animals, bugs, mushrooms and leaves while on vacation or even from your backyard, you may be more a citizen scientist than you thought. And now you can put your natural love for the environment to good use by uploading your images to a new website called SciSpy. A new free app that you can download from the iTunes store or from the SciSpy website makes it easier. I've already uploaded a bunch of images myself from recent vacations. (By the way, I was surprised at how many images of living creatures and plants I had taken.)

The app allows users to selection a “mission,” -- for example, "at the bird feeder," "bugs in your backyard" or "urban wildlife" -- snap a photo using an iPhone and then upload the image to an online database. The files are date-stamped, geo-tagged and classified by topical experts.

If you're a fan of the Science Channel, you'll be happy to know that the missions will frequently correspond with television series including tonight's premiere of Monster Bug Wars at 9 PM (ET/PT). I suspect if you have any photographs of bugs, you'll be motivated to put them up.

I like this idea of collecting images of nature that you might come into contact while on vacation or just taking the dog for a walk. I saw an owl sitting on a branch one early morning while walking my dog through the city. Having grown up the countryside, this was the first time I was so close to an owl in nature.

My only critique of this new website is that they don't have a category for the flora or fauna one might encounter near the ocean. The closest is "catch of the day." But if you have a photograph of a blue crab (as I did), you're stuck putting it under "general wildlife." Hopefully, the producers of the site will expand the missions.

Other than that, I think the SciSpy site is a great way to kids involved in nature and aware of the world around them. Check it out and report back on what you think.

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