Posts Tagged ‘ Hamas ’

A Kuwaiti citizen is in charge of Al Qaeda operations against Israeli targets for the Palestinian territories, an Israeli daily has said. Sami Al Mutairi, who was convicted in 2003 of killing American computer expert Michael Pouliot, 46, and wounding his driver in Kuwait, has sent about $850,000 to Al Qaeda members in the...
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France’s foreign minister on Saturday said that the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al Mabhouh indicates the need for an immediate recognition of a Palestinian state in the region. “It shows the need for peace and a Palestinian state, immediately,” Bernard Kouchner told Le Journal Du Dimanche when asked in the interview about the...
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Israel has failed to demonstrate that it will conduct “thorough and impartial investigations” into alleged violations by its forces during the Gaza conflict, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday.   “Israel claims it is conducting credible and impartial investigations, but it has so far failed to make that case,” said Joe Stork, deputy...
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 International human rights watchdog Amnesty International has accused United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of “missing a crucial opportunity by failing to make an assessment of the credibility of Israeli and Palestinian investigations into violations during the three week attacks in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel in December 2008. “This is deeply disappointing...
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