Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Human Rights Watch

Have pigs started to fly? Human Rights Watch are actually publicly criticising Palestinians.

Armed Palestinian groups have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, in some cases amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday morning.

In internal Palestinian fighting over the last three days, both Fatah and Hamas armed forces have summarily executed captives, killed people not involved in hostilities, and engaged in gun battles with one another inside and near Palestinian hospitals.

Is that the same Fatah that the US is funding, arming and training?

And for the real "wow" factor-

"These attacks by both Hamas and Fatah constitute brutal assaults on the most fundamental humanitarian principles," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director for Human Rights Watch. "The murder of civilians not engaged in hostilities and the willful killing of captives are war crimes, pure and simple."

Perhaps I've missed HRW's previous condemnations of Palestinians terror acts, like the endless Qassam rocket attacks, on Israeli civilians?

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