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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					07/11/2010 &#8211; 05:28 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">GAZA, (PIC)&#8211; The Palestinian  government in Gaza has asked the British government to revoke an earlier  decision to amend the legislation on prosecuting war criminals.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The justice ministry said in a statement  on Sunday that such an amendment would constitute a big insult to the  British judiciary&#8217;s reputation, independence, and integrity.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">It charged that the step was meant to  please Israel, noting that the British foreign secretary William Hague  had said that the law would be amended, which meant treating criminals  as official guests with diplomatic immunity and sparing them punishment.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Such a serious trend would pose as a  reward for the Israeli occupation forces and leaders who committed and  ordered the crimes, the ministry said, adding that the trial of Israeli  war criminals was an ethical responsibility on all those keen on human  rights and dignity.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;There is no justification whatsoever for  those who want to change the law for the sake of cheap political ends  while ignoring the innocent lives that were killed in cold blood,&#8221; the  ministry underlined.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The national and international laws would  remain impotent and worthless as long as they did not prosecute the  Israeli war criminals regardless of political prices, the ministry  elaborated.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">It asked the British government, which  shoulders a big moral responsibility for the Palestinian people&#8217;s  tragedies to retain politics aloof from the judiciary so as not to  tarnish its reputation.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The ministry also asked all judicial  authorities in the European countries and the free world not to take the  British step as a model to follow and to embark on serious steps to put  Israeli war criminals on trial.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7UHjOWCQWJ1gdUpfxnGfz2qfysqUxpuDp8Y7uPfmjHMNIV57uHMiZ6kLOM%2bgjVcY5kM%2bVbWgAdwxcTyotHF%2bq%2f61hq7UB34MGRQj2il382zI%3d">Palestinian government asks Britain not to amend war criminals law</a>.</p>
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