The U.S. House condemned as biased a U.N. report accusing Israel and Hamas of war crimes in Gaza, and urged President Obama to oppose U.N. endorsement of its findings. The report "paints a distorted picture," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate Palestinian leader, has defied his Islamist rivals Hamas by calling a general election that threatens to perpetuate a damaging divide between the West Bank and Gaza. The announcement was immediately condemned by Hamas, whose fighters violently wrested control of Gaza from Mr Abbas's Fatah party in June, 2007.
Hamas condemned the UN saying it planned to teach Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip about the Holocaust. "We refuse to let our children study a lie invented by the Zionists."
Arab sources said Hamas and several Palestinian militias have recruited high school students for military training. The sources said the teenagers were taught basic combat skills as well as the use of explosive belts for suicide missions. Recruitment begins at Hamas' controlled Mosques, followed by visits to the children's school for further convincing.
Hamas' children TV is reinventing itself with a new puppet host - Nassur, a bear puppet calling on Palestinian children to join Hamas' Jihad army. They sure start early.
Unintentional live report from Alarabiya-TV's Hannan al-Masri that just learned of a Hamas Missile being Fired from the Ground Floor of the Building housing the Alarabiya Studio. Recorded on January 1st 2009.
A short film presenting visual evidence of the long-standing Hamas strategy of exploiting civilians as human shields, and civilian buildings as cover for terrorist attacks.
News flash on Hamas TV - following a threatened air strike, Hamas calls all Gaza CHILDREN to gather near the house of Abu Hatai to form a human shield.
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