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.
On July 7, 2014, Israel waged a war on Gaza that lasted for 51 days, during which 2,147 Palestinians were killed, 530 of whom were children and 340 Palestinian resistance members, while 8,710 of Gaza’s residents were wounded, according to a report issued in November 2014 by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.
Perhaps Palestinians feel it is important to draft a report about the Palestinian parties’ performance during the war, since the Palestinian delegation failed to achieve the required conditions when it negotiated an Egypt-sponsored cease-fire with its Israeli counterpart. One of the most important conditions that was not met was the establishment of a seaport and an airport in the Gaza Strip to ease the harsh living conditions.
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