Bassem Eid

Hamas, not Israel, is to blame for the latest bloodshed

Rockets are fired from Gaza city (Photo: Getty)
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I was born in the Jordanian-occupied Old City in Jerusalem and lived in a UN refugee camp from 1966 until 1999. During the First Intifada, I worked for B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, and in 1996 I founded the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring group.

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