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

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

In a rare interview, Ismail Haniya, the depsoed Palestinian prime minister, also told Al Jazeera’s Zeina Awad that he is still hopeful of exchanging Gilad Shalit, a captured Israeli soldier, for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

Armed men wearing army uniforms have attacked the Pakistani army’s headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi close to the capital, Islamabad.

Four gunmen and six soldiers were killed in the fierce gun battle that followed.

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Awad reports.

The US secretary of state has called the crackdown on an opposition rally last week in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, "criminality of the greatest degree".

Hillary Clinton promised "appropriate actions" against the military rulers and has called on the authorities to do more to secure justice for the victims.

But for families who lost loved ones, there is no guarantee that they will even get the bodies back.

More than 150 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured when Guinea’s presidential gaurd fired on 50,000 pro-dmeocracy demonstrators gathered at the main football stadium in Conakry.

The rally was called to protest at reports that Moussa Dadis Camara, Guinea’s military leader, was planning to stand for presidential elections next year, having previously said he would not run.

After seizing power in December 2008, he pledged not to conetst elections, but has since made a series of contradictory stateemnts about his intentions.

Zeina Awad repotrs.

In part one of a special 3 part series, Al Jazeera’s Awad Joumaa met his father, Hussein, in Denmark where he now lives. As they work their way to what was once Palestine, they travel through Lebanon where Hussein spent most of his life in the Baalbek refugee camp, in the Bekaa Valley. As time wore on he joined the Palestinian resistance.

Looking at one man’s journey, this special 3 part series discovers one man’s journey back to Palestine, his first tmie since he was expelled in 1948. From Paelstine, he fled to a refugee camp in Lebanon and from Lebanon to Denmark. Al Jazeera’s Awad Joumaa takes his father to the country he fled from.