In a highly belated report on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch admitted that Hamas committed war crimes against Israeli civilians on October 7th.
The report found that “Palestinian fighters committed summary killings, hostage-taking and other war crimes, and the crimes against humanity of murder and wrongful imprisonment.”
The report also said that there should be pressure put on terror groups to release all civilian hostages.
A source close to HRW told the Jerusalem Post that, early in the war, the NGO sent a delegation to southern Israeli communities to try to disprove accounts of sexual assault, mutilation, torture, and child murder.
Professor Gerald Steinberg, founder and President of NGO Monitor, responded to the HRW report and said, “This is another blatant example of HRW’s token ‘balance’ and cynical political manipulation.”
He added, “ Nine months after the brutal October 7 atrocities were shown live on social media, no one needs a ‘report’ from an organization devoted to demonizing Israel using the blood libels of genocide, apartheid, starvation, and war crimes.”
