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Palestinians ask where their state comptroller report is

Palestinians hope to have an active control bureau to investigate the political and even military failures of Palestinian parties and leaders.
A Palestinian boy sleeps on a mattress inside the remains of his family's house, which witnesses said was destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war in 2014 summer, during a sandstorm in Gaza September 8, 2015. A heavy sandstorm swept across parts of the Middle East on Tuesday, killing two people and hospitalising hundreds in Lebanon and disrupting fighting and air strikes in neighboring Syria. Clouds of dust also engulfed Israel, Jordan and Cyprus where aircraft were diverted to Paphos from Larnaca
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian media outlets have recently been preoccupied with covering the report issued Feb. 28 by the Israeli state comptroller on the internal investigations of the Israeli army’s failures in the 2014 war on Gaza. While many took this as a victory for the Palestinian resistance, Palestinians took to social media to ask, “Where is our state comptroller’s report?”

Judge Joseph Shapira drafted the 180-page report of the State Comptroller of Israel. It consists of Shapira’s investigations of how political and military leaders failed to handle the threat posed by the resistance’s tunnels in Gaza, which led to the death of 68 Israeli soldiers during the war. This report also included charges of negligence against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his Cabinet.

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