Hamas rejects HRW report citing ‘lies and blatant bias’
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has rejected Human Rights Watch's “lies and blatant bias” towards Israel and demanded that HRW withdraw its report and apologize.
Palestinian resistance groups on October 7 last year carried out a historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for the Israeli regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
In its report, HRW accused Hamas’s armed wing and four other groups of committing “numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity against civilians” during the October military operation on Israelis.
HRW said dozens of serious human rights violations occurred on October 7 including “murder, hostage-taking, and other grave offenses.”
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In response, Hamas rejected the HRW report on Wednesday, saying it lacks “professionalism and credibility.”
“After 285 days of continuous Zionist crimes against our Palestinian people in Gaza, the likes of which modern history has not witnessed, and after the Zionist entity has become labeled by the international community and its courts as a terrorist committing genocide, the Human Rights Watch report comes to echo the lies told by the occupying army,” Hamas said in a statement.
“Note that the Zionists and their media in the beginning of this genocide had started to justify their crimes against our people and tried to get international support, but they retracted their statements after being exposed and demonstrating their false narrative,” it said.
“The Human Rights Watch report adopted the entire Israeli narrative and moved away from the method of scientific research and the neutral legal position, and became more like an Israeli propaganda document,” Hamas noted.
Israel unleashed its bloody Gaza offensive on October 7. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least 38,794 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in Gaza.
The toll includes 81 deaths in the latest 24-hour reporting period, a ministry statement said.
Another 89,364 people have been wounded in more than nine months of attacks, it added.
Recently, The Lancet, a leading general medical journal, estimated that the death toll from the Israeli aggression could be 186,000 or even more as many Palestinians have succumbed to the indirect impacts of the Gaza war.
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