Agencies - Hamas Movement has confirmed Sunday that its response to the Goldstone report didn’t contain any apology, stressing the Palestinians' right to defend themselves and to resist the Zionist occupation.

Retorting to Fatah spokesmen in the West Bank, Hamas underlined that what Fatah spokesmen were talking about were Zionist hearsays meant to distort Hamas's image.

"Those who asked Hamas to apologize to the Palestinian people instead of apologizing to the Zionists were indeed either liars or maliciously attempting to fish in muddy waters because their source of information was a false news report invented by the Hebrew media", the Movement underlined in a statement it issued Sunday.

To the contrary, Hamas said, the Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people don’t need to be proven as media outlets were showing those crimes such as the ZOF troops deliberate targeting of Palestinian civilians, paramedics and ambulances live on TV during the war on Gaza.

Hamas explained that it only responded to claims included in the Goldstone report, and proved that the Palestinian resistance's behavior was a reaction to the Zionist brutal aggression on the Strip.

For his part, Mohammed Faraj Al-Ghoul, the Palestinian justice minister, raised doubts over Zionist claims that Palestinian rockets killed civilians, yet, he added, the Zionist occupation has to prove those claims with evidence but till now it refuses to allow independent committees to check those claims.

Ghoul asserted the right of the Palestinian resistance to defend the Palestinian people and to repel any Zionist aggression against them with all possible means.

He also pointed out that the PA government in Gaza would follow up the matter till the UN refers the report to the International Criminal Court to prosecute the Zionist war criminals.