[AFP] The European Union backed on Thursday a contentious UN report blasting Israel's military offensive in Gaza. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, whose country holds the EU presidency, praised its chief author and said the document is "worthy of consideration." In Israel, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said: "Anyone who had bothered reading the report and not just the headlines in the press would realize this is not an independent or professional investigation but a collection of claims brought forward by Hamas to the members of the panel. The Swedish foreign minister's words are very disappointing because they show that either he did not read the text or that he really did not understand what was written in it."
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