The Vatican called on Muslim religious leaders on Tuesday to condemn "unspeakable criminal acts" by Islamic State militants who have taken a series of cities in northern Iraq, forcing tens of thousands of Christians and Yazidis to flee their homes.
The inquiry, which was launched on July 23 after 29 countries voted in its favor, is slated to submit its report by March 2015.
They did not include an agreement on a port for Gaza or a consensus on demilitarization.
HRW officials wanted to release a report on the alleged mass killing of over 800 people last year by forces loyal to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
A month of war has killed 1,910 Palestinians and 67 Israelis while devastating wide tracts of densely populated Gaza.
New 72-hour cease-fire between Hamas and Israel has begun.
Israeli Cabinet set to meet Sunday on Gaza.
A decision was to be made after a meeting on Sunday with Egyptian mediators.
The Egyptian court previously banned the Muslim Brotherhood in September.
U.S. President Barack Obama said he was willing to consider broader use of military strikes in Iraq to beat back Islamist militants, but Iraqi political leaders must first figure out a way to work with each other, the New York Times reported.
More than 1,900 Palestinians and 67 Israelis have been killed over the past four weeks, according to U.N. estimates.
Hamas claimed that Ayman Taha, a former spokesman for Hamas in Gaza, was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike, but the story doesn't end there.
The end of the 72-hour cease-fire in Gaza has come, with no truce extension or deal in sight.
Hamas doesn't have the money or the organization needed to rebuild. The solution, once again, will have to come from abroad.
After a month of bitter fighting, the two sides are not meeting face to face.
A 72-hour Gaza truce held through its second day on Wednesday and Israel said it was ready to extend the deal as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israelis and Palestinians on an enduring end to a war that devastated the Hamas-ruled enclave.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said there was "clear evidence" of war crimes by Israel during its offensive in Gaza as he met International Criminal Court prosecutors on Tuesday to push for an investigation.
Egypt pushed Israel and the Palestinian delegation to agree to this latest cease-fire so that negotiations to end the conflict can begin.
Despite the partial withdrawal, fighting still rages in the north of the Strip. The south is hardly safer, and Gaza City is caught in the middle.
In a raid in the Sinai Peninsula bordering Israel, the Egyptian military killed 11 militants and destroyed three tunnels going to Gaza.
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The United Nations called an attack on an UNRWA school in Gaza used to house displaced Palestinians a "moral outrage and a criminal act."