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GAZA, Feb 3 (KUNA) -- Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has
sharply criticized the Goldstone report on the recent Israeli war on the Gaza
Strip a year ago.
Ayalon said in a statement quoted by Israeli radio today that the report
will find its proper place in the dustbin of history.
He added that Israel is not obliged to conduct the investigation itself,
but must instead conduct an investigation into "the terrorist practices of the
Hamas Movement".
Ayalon stressed that all the civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip during
the "Operation Cast Lead" resulted from Hamas' of residents of Gaza as human
shields.
Israel launched a war in December 2008 on the Gaza Strip on the pretext of
stopping the firing of Palestinian rockets into southern Israel. (end).
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