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In a rare occurrence, the George Soros-funded anti-Israel Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday admitted Hamas was guilty of committing war crimes during its May conflict with Israel by indiscriminately firing thousands of terror rockets toward Israeli population centers. The attacks “flagrantly violated” the laws of war, the New York-based group said in its report. The report also acknowledged Israel’s claim that Palestinian rockets and mortars had misfired, and landed within Gaza, killing and injuring an unknown number of Palestinians. According to the report, one rocket that had fallen short above the city of Jabalya killed seven civilians and injured...

A U.N. official in Gaza said a school where dozens of Palestinians were killed by tank shells on Tuesday was clearly marked with a U.N. flag and its location had been reported to Israeli authorities. John Ging, director of operations in Gaza for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, said the death toll in the Israeli artillery strike near the school in Jabalya refugee camp was 30 dead with another 55 people injured.

At least 30 people were reportedly killed and 53 wounded in an explosion in a UN-run school in the town of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinians. The IDF issued a statement saying the school grounds were used by terrorists to fire mortar shells at the troops. According to the IDF, among the dead were members of a Hamas launching cell, including operatives Immad Abu Askar and Hassan Abu Askar. Slideshow: Troops inside Gaza The infantrymen returned mortar shell fire into the school grounds, the army said. Defense officials told The Associated Press that booby-trapped bombs in...

ten-year-old Palestinian girl was killed Saturday when an explosion ripped through her home in the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, hospital officials said. Residents said Ibtihal Abu Daher was killed when a Palestinian rocket inadvertently hit her house. Her 11-year old brother Ihab was also wounded in the explosion. The Israel Defense Forces said there were no troops in the area at the time. Militants often fire homemade Qassam rockets and mortar shells from the camp into southern Israel. A mortar shell which militants fired Saturday evening landed in Palestinian territory in the northern West Bank. In...