Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations expressed satisfaction on Thursday with Israel's reaction to the Goldstone report on Israel's Cast Lead counter-terror campaign in Gaza last winter. The Goldstone report accuses Israel - and to a lesser extent, Hamas - of war crimes during the operation.
In his report to the UN General Assembly, the secretary general said that Israel checked the accusations against it thoroughly and intensively. At the same time, Ban noted that he could not determine if the two sides carried out their investigations according to UN criteria.