AHRON SHAPIRO

THE Israel Defence Forces have deepened their probes into possible ncidents of suspected wrongdoing by its soldiers during the Gaza war of earlier this year, according to a report in The Jerusalem Post.

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RONI SOFER

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening harshly criticised the conclusions of a United Nations committee which probed the Israel Defense Forces’ operation in Gaza and accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes.

“The Goldstone Report is a field court-marital, and its findings were prewritten,” Netanyahu said in a closed forum. “This is a prize for terror. The report makes it difficult for democracies to fight terror.”

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JERUSALEM - Israel issued a 160-page document justifying its military offensive in Gaza.

The publication Thursday of “The Operation in Gaza - Legal and Factual Aspects,” which deals with last December and January’s Operation Cast Lead, comes just days before the scheduled release of two United Nations reports on the Gaza war that are expected to be harshly critical of Israel. Read the full story