‘Stop Paddling Israeli Narrative’ – Hamas Tells HRW
CrossFireArabia- July 17, 2024
The Hamas Movement has called on Human Rights Watch (HRW) to withdraw its latest report on the Gaza Strip, saying it “lacks professionalism and credibility and is full of lies and blatantly biased in favor of the Israeli occupation state,” according to the Palestine Information Center.
In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas strongly denounced the fact that an institution that defends human rights had made such a mistake, stressing that “the last HRW report repeats the lies that were made by the Israeli army and its media machine at the beginning of the events to justify its crimes against out people.”
Hamas accused HRW of adopting in its report the entire Israeli narrative and deviating from the scientific research methodology and the neutral legal position, adding that its report became more like an “Israeli propaganda document.”
Hamas affirmed that the HRW report did not talk about the Gaza people’s exposure to killing, destruction, starvation and suffering that goes beyond imagination.
Hamas also said that the report did not mention the number of the martyrs and wounded people that exceeded 120,000 within 285 days and the complete destruction of hospitals, universities, schools and infrastructure, “while the Israeli occupation’s killing machine persists in its crimes with full US and Western support.”
“The Palestinian people have the right to resist the occupation, the root of all evil, with all means and in accordance with what is enshrined in divine laws and international conventions,” Hamas stressed, adding that HRW ignored what the Palestinians in Gaza had suffered from repeated wars, killing, torture and siege before October 7, 2023.
“The [HRW] report deliberately has ignored on purpose the crimes that were committed by the Nazi occupation army on October 7 against our people in Gaza, and even against Israeli civilians who were bombed along with Palestinian fighters by warplanes and tank projectiles,” Hamas said.
“This international organization’s report has confirmed its inhuman bias when talking about Israeli prisoners who are being held by the Palestinian resistance and the need to release them immediately, without demanding the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners, men, women and children, [from Israeli jails]” Hamas added.
The Hamas Movement has held HRW fully responsible for what was mentioned in its report that justified Israel’s crimes, stressing that the report damaged HRW’s image.
This article is reprinted from the Palestine Information Center’s website
