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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Israel-slams-fundamentally-flawed-Amnesty-report-accusing-IDF-of-Gaza-war-crimes-410471

Israel Slams "Fundamentally Flawed" Amnesty Report Accusing IDF of Gaza War Crimes

(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - The Israel Foreign Ministry on Wednesday slammed a new Amnesty International report accusing Israel of committing war crimes in last year's Gaza conflict, calling it "fundamentally flawed" in its methodologies, facts, legal analysis and conclusions. The ministry said that despite abundant evidence, Amnesty does not describe the "heinous strategy" of the terrorist organizations that Israel was fighting to "embed their military operations within the civilian environment, and to fire at the IDF and Israel's civilian population from behind the civilian population." Amnesty also built a false narrative, claiming that four days of IDF military operations were in response to the killing and kidnapping of one IDF soldier, ignoring the fact that there was an ongoing conflict during which the IDF was trying to stop rocket fire and neutralize assault tunnels.

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