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Smoke rises after an Israel air strike in Gaza Strip December 28, 2008. - Source: Reuters -
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Israel has blasted a UN report on its three-week war on Gaza that is to be submitted to the Security Council, branding it biased toward the Islamist group Hamas and misleading.
"The state of Israel rejects the criticism in the committee's
summary report, and determines that in both spirit and language,
the report is tendentious, patently biased, and ignores the facts
presented to the committee," the foreign ministry said in a
statement.
"The committee has preferred the claims of Hamas, a murderous
terror organisation, and by doing so has misled the
world."
The report, authored by a special committee led by a former head
of Amnesty International, Ian Martin, contains several serious
charges against Israeli forces, saying the Israeli military
intentionally fired at UN facilities and civilians hiding in them
during the massive offensive.
It is the latest criticism of Israel over the 22-day war it
launched against the Hamas-run territory on December 27 in response
to ongoing rocket fire from Gaza militants over a period of eight
years.
