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Congressional initiatives targeting Goldstone report

Legislation calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report is circulating in both houses of Congress. A Senate resolution, introduced April 8 by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and James Risch (R-Idaho), calls on the U.N. Human Rights Council to \”reflect the author’s repudiation of the Goldstone report’s central findings, rescind the report, and reconsider further Council actions with respect to the report’s findings.\”

Israel’s attorney general set to indict Lieberman

Israel\’s attorney general reportedly is set to announce that he will file an indictment against the country\’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, on graft charges. The draft indictment on charges of fraud, money laundering and breach of trust will be announced Monday or Tuesday, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz.

Israeli strike kills three civilians

Israeli combat aircraft reportedly killed three Palestinian civilians in a retaliatory attack. Palestinian officials were quoted by Israeli media as saying that a 45 year old woman, her 20 year old daughter and a 55 year old man were killed in the attack Friday on the southern Gaza Strip.

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