[news] Palestinian Human Rights Vs. Human Rights Watch

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

It is at times like this that we expect human rights organizations to  
speak out.

How has Human Rights Watch responded to the challenge? It criticized  
Israel for destroying Gaza's only electrical plant, and also called on  
Israel to "investigate" why its forces were targeting Palestinian  
medical personnel in Gaza and to "investigate" the Beit Hanoun massacre.

On the other hand, it accused Palestinians of committing a "war crime"  
after they captured an Israeli soldier and offered to exchange him for  
Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails. (Israel was  
holding 10,000 Palestinians prisoner.)

  


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