SECRETARY GENERAL OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IRENE KHAN IN BEIT HANUN
Irene Khan(R), secretary general of human rights group Amnesty International, looks at the destroyed roof of the Assamna family home in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun December 09, 2006. The Assamna family lost 16 members including women and children in one attack by the Israeli forces on the town earlier last month. Khan slammed Israel's "deliberate and reckless shooting and artillery shelling or air strikes carried out in densely populated areas in the Gaza Strip." (UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad)
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