Ma'an - Hamas should repudiate unlawful projectile attacks against Israeli population centers and hold those responsible for them to account, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released Thursday.
The report came amidst Israeli outrage directed toward both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International for their supposedly inordinate criticism of Israel's military rather than Hamas. However, the two groups have in fact alleged that both sides committed war crimes during the Gaza assault.
A UN fact-finding investigation into serious violations of the laws of war by both sides in the Gaza conflict, led by Judge Richard Goldstone, is due to report back to the UN Human Rights Council in September. Hamas agreed to cooperate with the probe; Israel did not, and issued a preliminary rebuttal last week. |