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Source: http://hrw.org/press/2002/08/hamas080702.htm
Human Rights Watch Asks Hamas to End Attacks on Civilians
(Human Rights Watch) - Letter to Hamas Spiritual Leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin: "According to news reports, Hamas has claimed responsibility for at least 23 suicide bombings that have targeted and killed civilians....All attacks that target civilians constitute crimes of the gravest sort. There can never be any justification for such blatant disregard of basic principles of international human rights and humanitarian law."