Hamas on Monday condemned as "shameless" an Israeli probe that cleared the occupation military of any wrongdoing over a 2002 raid that martyred Hamas’s military chief and 16 others

Hamas on Monday condemned as "shameless" an Israeli probe that cleared the occupation military of any wrongdoing over a 2002 raid that martyred Hamas's military chief and 16 others.
  
The probe's findings are "a shameless affront to the feelings of the Palestinian people and an official endorsement of crimes and the practice of terrorism," said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum.
  
In July 2002, at the height of the second Palestinian uprising, an Israeli F-16 dropped a one-ton bomb on the home of Salah Shehadeh, the head of Hamas's military wing, killing him and 16 others, nine of them children.
  
The Israeli commission of inquiry, which handed its findings to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, found that the high civilian death toll was the result of a chain of intelligence failures but ruled that no "criminal offence" had been committed. "An examination of the operation according to the rules of Israeli and international law unequivocally removes any suspicion that a criminal offence was committed by any of those involved in the operation," it said.