An aide to deposed Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haneya said on Wednesday that calls for implementing the recommendations in UN Gaza war report should go to Israel.

"Hamas and the other factions of resistance had asked Israel to keep civilians away from fighting and wars but Israel did not commit to this," said Yousef Rizka, Haneya's political adviser. "Many children, men and women were killed in Gaza as civilians."

Rizka's comments came after the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent a letter to Haneya urging him to open "a credible investigation" into violations of laws of war during Israel's December 27 to January 18 military operation in the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza war report, conducted by a UN fact-finding mission led by South African judge Richard Goldstone, found that Israel has committed war crimes in its offensive which killed 1,387 Palestinians.

The report also accused Hamas and the armed Palestinian groups of violating international laws by firing rockets into southern Israel that killed three Israeli civilians during the course of the fighting.

Hamas must inform its fighters that unlawful attacks on civilians must be prosecuted, HRW wrote in the letter it sent to Haneya on Tuesday.

HRW "should have sent its letter to Israel," Rizka said, adding "there is no comparison between the civilians who were killed in Gaza and the Israeli civilians who were only three."

Meanwhile, Rizka said that the Hamas-led government of Gaza "will carry out all Goldstone's recommendations involving the Hamas-mandated Gaza Strip."

HRW's letter questioned Hamas' commitment, saying that the Islamic has in the past "failed to investigate its fighters and commanders who violated the laws of war."

(Xinhua News Agency October 22, 2009)