Not impossible that there will be arrests and trials, says UN investigator

The UN investigator, Navi Pillay, on Thursday said that she sees parallels with the "butchery in Rwanda" and she hopes Israeli leaders will be put behind bars, AFP news agency has reported. 

Acknowledging the slow process, she said, "as late South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela said, it always seems impossible until it's done".

Pillay, a South African former judge who headed the international tribunal for the 1994 Rwanda genocide and also served as UN human rights chief, said that it is not impossible that "there will be arrests and trials" in the future.

Pillay's Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) issued a report on Tuesday concluding that "genocide is occurring in Gaza".