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A rocket fi red at Israel from a residential area in the Gaza Strip, December 2008. (Getty Images / Image
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basement and by fi ring missiles from schools, houses, and hospitals or closer nearby. It por-
trayed killed Hamas fi ghters as if they were civilian victims. And it began a largely successful
propaganda campaign against Israel, accusing it of deliberately killing civilians, retaliating with
disproportionate destruction, and even committing war crimes.
A UN Human Rights Council delegation, known as the Goldstone Commission, among
whose members were people who had previously strongly criticized Israel, came to the Gaza
Strip, took Palestinian testimony, and reported the Palestinian testimony as fact. Israel, which
had refused to cooperate with the investigation, argued that the report was biased. The report
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