GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement has said that the new report on Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip that was released by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory has confirmed that Israel’s crimes and violations against the Palestinian people are unjustified and only aimed at ethnically cleansing and displacing them.
“While we appreciate the international efforts to document the occupation’s crimes, condemn its violations and achieve international justice, we regret that the victim is equated with the executioner,” Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday.
Hamas, however, criticized the UN for repeating Israel’s lies against the Palestinian resistance, pointing out that several independent reports and investigations already affirmed that such Israeli claims were untrue.
The Movement urged the international community, the UN and all human rights groups to work on stopping Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people and support the efforts being made by the International Court of Justice to hold Israeli leaders accountable for their crimes in Gaza.
Navi Pillay, chairperson of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said on Wednesday that “Israel has committed crimes against humanity, forced starvation, extermination, murder, and inhuman and cruel treatment of Palestinians.”
