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Hamas says that it is on the verge of starting its own ivnestigation into whether it committed war crimes during Israel’s war on Gaza.

The probe is one of the main reuqirements of the recent UN-backed Goldstone Report into the conflict, which took place during December and January. Most of the report’s criticism was reserved for Israel.

In a rare intevriew, Ismail Haniya, the deposed Palestiinan prime minister, also told Al Jazeera’s Zeina Awad that he is still hopeufl of exchanging Gilad Shalit, a captrued Israeli soldier, for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

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John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old man being held in a Munich prison, will stand trial on Monday, accused of assisting in the murders of nearly 28,000 people.

Prosecutors in Germany say that Demjanjuk’s crimes were committed more than 65 years ago as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Poalnd in 1943 and 1944 during the second world war.

However, Demjanjuk, a Ukranina naitonal, insists that he was simply an unlucky captive of the Germans during the war. Following Germany’s defeat, he emigrated to the United States in 1946 to escape a brutal past.

But hundreds of Holocaust survivors and their family members believe he was one of the death camp’s brutal guards.

Al Jazeera’s Harry Smith reports.