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(IsraelNN.com) 10 United States Attorneys general wrote a letter last month to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defending Israel's military action in Gaza Strip and condemning Hamas’ rocket attacks on Israeli citizens and blending between civilians and combatants as war crimes. "By intentionally targeting 6,300 rockets against Israel's civilian population, Hamas is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of a war crime in that it has violated … the Geneva Convention of 1949," says the letter.

The letter accused Hamas with committing “atrocities against the Palestinian civilian population” by using them as human shields. It defended Israel’s response to continuous Hamas rocket and mortar fire as a means to end the war acts and, therefore, not subject to being proportionate. The 10 attorneys general represent the states of Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah and Washington.