people , doing horrible things to families . Children fled that part of the world to try , try , try , try , maybe , to meet up with their family members in this country , taking a route that was horrific , trying to start a new life . Secretary Clinton did not support those children coming into this country .
The State Department report said the biggest human rights violations in Israel were terror attacks against civilians , and “ institutional and societal discrimination ” against Arabs , Israelis of Ethiopian extraction , women , non - Orthodox Jews and migrants . In the Palestinian territories , the report singled out the PA for failing “ to condemn incidents of anti - Semitic expression and embraced as ‘ martyrs ’ individuals who died while carrying out attacks on Israeli civilians . ” Hamas , it said , was guilty of a slew of humans rights abuses in the Gaza Strip , including “ security forces killing , torturinglife.injure.na, arbitrarily detaining , and harassing opponents , including Fatah members , and other Palestinians with impunity . Terrorist organizations and militant factions in the Gaza Strip launched rocket and mortar attacks against civilian targets in Israel , and they did so at or near civilian locations in Gaza . ” The report also pointed at Israeli legislation forcing foreign government - funded NGOs to take certain measures , which critics say would target groups critical of the government .