Hamas MPs: Israel's violations revealed in a UN report are a small part

[ 25/03/2009 - 02:43 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The Hamas lawmakers in the West Bank said Tuesday that the report submitted to the UN on Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip and the testimonies of Israeli soldiers about war crimes published lately by the Israeli Haaretz newspaper were only a fraction of the atrocities committed by Israel on the ground.

In a statement received by the PIC, the lawmakers underlined that the talk about Israeli crimes at the international level is a positive start, but not enough, stressing the need for more hard work to do justice to the Palestinian civilians and bring Israel's war criminals to trial in international courts.

The MPs, in another context, deplored Israel for arresting Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in 1948 Palestine, and a number of his colleagues during their participation in the celebration of Jerusalem as the capital of Arab culture for 2009.

They also strongly denounced the Israeli police for raiding aggressively the meeting held by the Jerusalemite popular committee and assaulting the participants, stressing that such Israeli practices reflect the size of Israel's hatred for everything Palestinian.

In the context of Israeli violations against Palestinians, the Israeli information center for human rights in occupied lands B'Tselem reported Wednesday that it documented, during nearly three-month period, 24 cases in which police officers and soldiers beat Palestinians using rifle butts, clubs and other means that cause injury, adding that 16 of these cases were especially serious and their victims suffered heavier injuries.

B'Tselem noted that the above figures only reflect a portion of the violent assaults that actually occurred, and it is likely that other attacks went unreported because it is impossible to document every case of violence by IOF troops and policemen in the West Bank.

In another unrelated context, the Israeli Maariv newspaper said Tuesday that Israel would deploy soon an anti-missile system called Iron dome around Gaza to intercept rockets fired by the Palestinian resistance.

According to the newspaper, the new system would be able to intercept Al-Qassam rockets, Grad missiles and even 155-mm artillery shells.

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