<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Goldstone &#8220;Reconsiders&#8221; Report on Gaza&nbsp;War]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>04.04.11 &#8211; 12:31				 			 					 			 				Washington &#8211; PNN &#8211; The retired jurist who headed the UN  investigation of  war crimes during the 2008 Gaza war now says that he  regrets the  report&#8217;s treatment of Israel.  In an editorial in the Washington Post, Richard Goldstone claimed that  he is now aware of information that would have produced &#8220;a different  document&#8221; than the extremely critical report he had issued to the UN in  2009.</p>
<p>In stating his regrets about the report, Goldstone  explained that the &#8220;fact-finding mission did not have such evidence  explaining the circumstances in which we said civilians in Gaza were  targeted, because it probably would have influenced our findings about  intentionality and war crimes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Goldstone also said that in light  of a recent Israeli investigation he had reconsidered the facts  concerning the IDF shelling of the al-Simouni family home that killed  some 29 people. He now believes the incident to be consequence of &#8220;an  Israeli commander’s erroneous interpretation of a drone image&#8221; rather  than an intentional targeting of civilians.</p>
<p>In the article, he  continued to claim that &#8220;Israel’s lack of cooperation with our  investigation meant that we were not able to corroborate how many Gazans  killed were civilians and how many were combatants.&#8221;</p>
<p>The judge  ended his editorial by claiming that his teams&#8217; original report &#8220;has led  to numerous &#8216;lessons learned&#8217; and policy changes,&#8221; while restating  that, &#8220;regrettably, there has been no effort by Hamas in Gaza to  investigate the allegations of its war crimes and possible crimes  against humanity.</p>
<p><a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=9821&amp;Itemid=63">Source</a></p>
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