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JERUSALEM — Israel on Wednesday rejected a U.N. panel’s call to open an independent inquiry into its wartime conduct in the Gaza Strip last winter and launched a diplomatic campaign to thwart any prosecution of its soldiers in an international criminal tribunal.
Officials said President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior ministers were telephoning counterparts abroad in an effort to discredit a harshly critical report by the fact-finding panel.
