GAZA, (PIC)-- Saul Takahashi, the deputy director of the office of the high commissioner for human rights, said Friday that Goldstone’s report was the strongest executive report in the UN history.

In a press statement to Safa news agency, Takahashi underlined that if the UN human rights council had been given the opportunity to vote on Goldstone’s report last Friday, it would have issued a clear resolution condemning Israel for its war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

He added that the condemnation resolution would have enabled international human rights organizations to prosecute Israeli officials who were involved in the war on Gaza.

The official stressed that delaying the vote on the report to next March would impose new facts on the ground through exercising political pressures to undermine the report, noting that the Palestinian Authority (PA) wasted a valuable opportunity.

For his part, Diya Al-Madhoun, the head of the central committee for documenting and prosecuting Israeli war criminals (Tawtheeq), strongly denounced the PA’s irresponsible act against Goldstone’s report, saying it was a shock to many jurists and those concerned with the prosecution of war criminals and a stab in the back of Gaza victims.

In a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC), Madhoun said that this behavior was not surprising because it reflected the real face of the PA in Ramallah which is used to take such positions in support of the Israeli occupation, noting that PA ambassador to the UN Riyadh Mansour had derailed in 2007 a draft statement calling for lifting the siege on Gaza submitted to the UN Security Council by Qatar and Indonesia.