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A step closer to justice for Palestinians

IN A dramatic escalation representative of global outrage against Israel’s tsunami of crimes against Palestinians, a new report has made scathing findings on them.

New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a detailed legal report declaring that the Israeli government is committing crimes of apartheid. This serious charge of apartheid crimes is groundbreaking for it is the first official use of the term by the HRW.

Comprehensive and extremely well researched, the 213-page report titled , makes damning allegations of decades of persecution of Palestinians.

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