Friday 7 August 2009

PA Ministry of Information: HRW report equates the victim with the villain


PA Ministry of Information: HRW report equates the victim with the villain

[ 07/08/2009 - 12:22 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Ministry of Information (MI) of the PA government in Gaza expressed astonishment at the report of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in which the organisation accused Hamas and Palestinian resistance factions of committing war crimes.

The MI said in a statement on Thursday that the projectiles fired by the resistance into the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands is a natural response to the continued Zionist aggressions against the Palestinian people, especially Israeli occupation military aggressions carried out against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on the land, from the air and from the sea.

The MI expressed shock at how the organisation practices a policy of turning a blind eye to the Israeli occupation atrocities, especially those atrocities which are well documented. It also accused the HRW of not being objective as it talked about 3 Israelis killed by resistance primitive projectiles while it ignores 1500 Palestinians, mostly women and children, killed and 6000 others wound in a systematic manner using state of the art weapons during the war on Gaza.

There could be no comparison between primitive projectiles used by the resistance to defend the Palestinian people and their land and cluster bombs and other state of the art weaponry used by the occupation, adding that if the resistance projectiles were causing fear amongst the Israeli occupiers the Israeli weaponry is causing much more fear amongst Palestinian children and women.

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