Gazan civilians were deliberately targeted

Hamas’s response in Gaza has been much different. "His retreat does not change the fact war crimes had been committed against 1.5 million people in Gaza," said spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said Goldstone's comments did not change a thing. "The report was as clear as the crimes that Israel committed during the war," he said, "The U.N. General Assembly should meet to debate the original Goldstone report."
Key findings in the U.N. report–that “Israeli armed forces had carried out direct intentional strikes against civilians” in eleven incidents examined in detail and that Israel destroyed civilian infrastructure like the Sawafeary chicken farm in a systematic and deliberate fashion–is muddied up by Goldstone’s claim that “civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy. ”This deliberate doctrine leads to the deaths of civilians and civilian infrastructure. The Lebanon war “resulted in at least 1,109 Lebanese deaths, the vast majority of whom were civilians, 4,399 injured, and an estimated 1 million displaced,” according to a Human Rights Watch report. The examples are endless, but what they make clear is that the Israeli persecution of Palestinians documented.
Ted Rudow III, MA