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Report: Hamas and Fatah Killed Innocents in Gaza War


[Reuters] Nidal al-Mughrabi - Hamas and Fatah committed "grave breaches" of international law in their civil war in Gaza in June, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said Tuesday in a new report detailing a series of extra-judicial killings. 161 Palestinians, of whom 41 were civilians, were killed during fighting. The PCHR "documented a number of cases in which militants executed wounded persons during their evacuation to hospitals," the 105-page report said. At least two people - a Fatah fighter and a Hamas member - were pushed to their deaths from tall buildings. In one incident, a wounded Fatah member was shot dead in a hospital by Hamas gunmen.
2007-10-10 01:00:00
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