Netanyahu vows to defend Israelis against UN Gaza report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday launched harsh slams against the United Nations' Gaza conflict investigation report, aion goldvowing never to allow Israelis to be on trail in international courts due to the alleged war crimes in the report.

"We will not allow Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak, who sent our sons to war, reach the Hague International Criminal Court," local news service Ynet quoted aion accountNetanyahu as speaking at the opening of the aion kina winter session of the Knesset (Israeli parliament).

The prime minister fiercely criticized the UN's Gaza report, saying the report and the UN investigation mission are "distorted."

The UN mission led by judge Richard Goldstone aion kinah said in a report last month that the mission has found evidence that both Israeli and the Palestinian forces committed "war crimes" during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza Strip from Dec. 27, 2008 to Jan. 18, 2009.