The US Senate unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday which called on the United Nations to rescind the

Goldstone Commission's report on Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip

in December 2008 and January 2009

, AFP reported. The resolution called on the UN Human Rights Council "to reflect the author's repudiation of the Goldstone report's central findings, rescind the report and reconsider further Council actions with respect to the report's findings." The resolution called on the UN Human Rights Council "to reflect the author's repudiation of the Goldstone report's central findings, rescind the report and reconsider further Council actions with respect to the report's findings."



The resolution urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to "do all in his power to redress the damage to Israel's reputation" and to "reform" the HRC "so that it no longer unfairly, disproportionately and falsely criticizes Israel on a regular basis." The resolution urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to "do all in his power to redress the damage to Israel's reputation" and to "reform" the HRC "so that it no longer unfairly, disproportionately and falsely criticizes Israel on a regular basis."

Earlier Thursday, three co-authors of the report on Gaza said they stood firmly behind their work and rejected recent calls to reconsider or retract the document. “The report of the [2009] fact-finding mission contains the conclusions made after diligent, independent and objective consideration of the information related to the events within our mandate, and careful assessment of its reliability and credibility,” they said. “We firmly stand by these conclusions,” the trio wrote in a letter they published in The Guardian newspaper. “The report of the [2009] fact-finding mission contains the conclusions made after diligent, independent and objective consideration of the information related to the events within our mandate, and careful assessment of its reliability and credibility,” they said. “We firmly stand by these conclusions,” the trio wrote in a letter they published innewspaper. The three mission members, attorney Hina Jilani of Pakistan, Prof. Christine Chinkin of Britain (she also holds Australian citizenship), and Col. (ret.) Desmond Travers of Ireland, spoke out after their former chairman, Judge Richard Goldstone, wrote an The three mission members, attorney Hina Jilani of Pakistan, Prof. Christine Chinkin of Britain (she also holds Australian citizenship), and Col. (ret.) Desmond Travers of Ireland, spoke out after their former chairman, Judge Richard Goldstone, wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post on April 1 saying that “if I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.”