(Washington Post) William Booth - Israeli officials issued a broad defense Sunday over how their country waged the war in Gaza last summer, making a case that Israel sought to minimize civilian casualties as the Islamist movement Hamas put its people in the line of fire and cynically used the ensuing death and destruction to stoke anti-Israel propaganda. The Israeli report is timed to preempt the imminent release of a critical report by the UN Human Rights Council on the Gaza war. Dore Gold, the new director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, said the war against Hamas was forced upon Israel by Hamas rocket fire aimed at Israeli civilian centers, which he called an obvious war crime.
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