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• Title: Palestinians Protest over UN Report Delay (Palestinians-Report: UNREST)
• Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
• Release Date : January 17, 2009
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 65 KB

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Hundreds of people protested on Oct. 5 against the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s support of the delay of the endorsement of a UN report on possible war crimes committed during Israel's Gaza offensive. The demonstration was held as anger mounted over the UN Human Rights Council's decision to delay consideration of the report compiled by former international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone, the London-based daily AL HAYAT and others reported the following day. In the West Bank political capital of Ramallah, hundreds of people protested against the decision, waving placards saying the delay "insults the blood of the martyrs and wounds our people," the Saudiowned newspaper said. Another sign read, "Delaying the vote on the Goldstone report frees the hand of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu in Jerusalem," referring to clashes the week before between police and Muslim protesters in the Old City. Ismail Hanieh, the prime minister of the Hamas-run government in Gaza, accused Westernbacked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of making the "absurd and criminal" decision to delay endorsement of the report, a move he said endangered Egyptian-brokered national unity talks. "Abbas gave the orders to delay voting on the report," Hanieh told reporters, according to AL HAYAT. "How can the two parties (Fatah and Hamas) sit at one table and sign an agreement in this situation ...? This has placed a heavy obstacle in the path of Palestinian unity," he said. The adoption of the report by the 47-member council was seen as a key step towards eventually bringing war crime charges against Israeli leaders and Palestinian militants at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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