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| Palestinian factions join Hamas in denouncing HRW's 'bias towards Israel' |
| 2024-07-19 |
| [NEWARAB] Various Palestinian factions from different quarters unanimously condemned on Thursday a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, in which the organisation accused Palestinian armed groups of committing war crimes on 7 October 2023. The factions accused HRW of presenting a "misleading and biased narrative" in favour of Israel while its genocidal war on Gaza enters the tenth month. On Wednesday, the HRW published a report in which it accused Palestinian armed factions in Gaza of allegedly committing "war crimes" during a Hamas-led surprise attack on Israeli military bases and civilian settlements within and around the Gaza envelope on 7 October. But the report notably did not focus on the suffering and destruction suffered by the Palestinian people in Gaza by Israel's continuous attacks or prior to October 7. HRW claimed that it spent nine months examining footage from Palestinian fighters' body cameras, mobile phones, vehicle-mounted cameras, and monitoring cameras. The rights group also claimed it examined satellite imagery and analysed dozens of audio recordings, most of which were shared on Telegram channels belonging to various armed Palestinian groups. Five armed Palestinian groups, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the armed wing of Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, were involved in the attack against Israeli sites, the HRW alleged. 'DELIBERATELY IGNORING PALESTINIAN SUFFERING' "The HRW's report ignores details shared by the Israeli media and research institutions that denied the alleged incidents of beheading and rape, and [the report] also deliberately ignored the entity's use of the Hannibal protocol, which caused the largest number of casualties among [Israelis]," the PIJ said in a press statement shared with The New Arab. The PIJ further said that the HRW's report reveals "its complete bias towards the Israeli occupation by deliberately ignoring the suffering of the Palestinian people before 7 October and the war of extermination and crimes against them after it, especially in the case of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel". The PIJ stressed that it has full commitment to "adhering to the values ​​of the Islamic religion, as evidenced by our treatment of the prisoners in our hands," and holds HRW "responsible for the lies and slander contained in its report". "HRW encourages the Israeli occupation to commit more massacres and slaughters and continue the war of extermination against the Palestinian people," the PIJ concluded. "The [HRW] report adopts the misleading Israeli narrative that has been proven to be false and there is no evidence for its validity, noting that it is also offensive to the Palestinian people and their struggle," the Popular Front for the Liberation, for its part, said in a press statement to TNA. Related: Hamas: 2024-07-18 Two Child Sex Offenders Added to Texas Most-Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List Hamas: 2024-07-18 IAF targets Hamas-affiliated terrorist Mohammad Jbara in southern Lebanon Hamas: 2024-07-18 The rise and fall of the US-built floating Gaza pier - analysis Related: Palestinian Islamic Jihad: 2024-07-11 Israel identifies 100 UNRWA employees who work as 'terrorist operatives', asks for their dismissal Palestinian Islamic Jihad: 2024-07-09 What two months of Hamas use of UN sites tells us Palestinian Islamic Jihad: 2024-07-06 IDF: Some 100 gunmen killed, over 100 terror sites destroyed during Shejaiya op Related: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: 2024-06-09 ‘Kill another Zionist now’: Pro-terror demonstrators converge near White House Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: 2024-04-14 German police shut down pro-Palestinian gathering over hate speech concerns Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: 2024-03-30 PA in final stages of talks with US to reform ’pay-to-slay’ policy — sources Related: Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: 2024-05-03 PIJ says worked with DFLP to shell Israeli forces in Gaza Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: 2022-08-21 Hamas, Islamic Jihad defend Abbas's '50 Holocausts' remarks Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: 2022-08-07 Hamas has an Islamic Jihad problem in the Gaza Strip Related: Fatah: 2024-07-17 China says wants to facilitate Palestinian 'reconciliation' Fatah: 2024-06-26 Israeli strike kills 10 relatives of Hamas chief Haniyeh Fatah: 2024-06-19 Naftali Bennett: Defeating Hamas is only the beginning of the solution Related: Al-Aqsa Martyrs'' Brigades: 2022-10-16 ‘Palestinian Doctor’ Killed During IDF Raid Linked to Terrorist Group Al-Aqsa Martyrs'' Brigades: 2022-01-08 PA arrests three Palestinians in Jenin, including escaped Gilboa prisoner's son Al-Aqsa Martyrs'' Brigades: 2018-06-22 Hamas paid family to claim Gaza baby was killed by Israeli tear gas |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I like the phrase: "HRW's 'bias towards Israel'". |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-07-19 00:57 |