Senior PLO official slams Israel for ‘war crimes’

At the same time as Israel buries the three slain teenagers in tearful ceremonies, senior Palestine Liberation Organization official Hanan Ashrawi slams the Israeli government for “war crimes at the expense of the Palestinian people” and casts doubt on Jerusalem’s assertion that Palestinian terrorists were behind the murders.

“No one condones the killing of innocent people of any nationality. Yet, collective punitive measures are unacceptable, and the Israeli government cannot continue to pass judgment without evidence and commit grave breaches of international law and war crimes at the expense of the Palestinian people,” she says during a meeting with British Secretary of State for the Home Department Theresa May and London’s Consul-General in Jerusalem, Alastair McPhail, in Ramallah.