Human Rights Watch called on Hamas to stop firing rockets against Israeli civilians. “Hamas has repeatedly failed to respect a fundamental rule of international humanitarian law by attacking civilians and civilian objects,” Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division, said on June 9.
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