The United Nations has backed down from a claim that a UN run school in Gaza was hit during an Israeli mortar attack last month.
Forty-three people were reportedly killed in the attack.
But a clarification issued by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs says the shelling and all the casualties happened outside the school.
But Britain’s Channel 4 journalist Jonathan Miller, who has investigated this story, questions the retraction and examines the politics.
So all the students were taking advantage of the bracing winter weather and studying en plein air!!!
The hasbara machine has already cranked up – vide the letter in today’s Australian.
Shades of the lies over previous Israeli attacks on UN infrastructure.
Remember this – Rachel Corrie fell under the Caterpillar. That’s all you need to remember. Everything else falls into place.
Two big fat whoppers in the oz, 6/2
“Israeli army spokesmen during the war said Israeli troops had fired three mortar shells in response to mortar fire from the area near the school, not from the school itself.”
http://idfspokesperson.com/2009/01/06/hamas-operatives-killed-in-unrwa-school-6-jan-2009/
http://idfspokesperson.com/2009/01/06/idf-vlog-hamas-terrorists-hide-in-un-school/
Watch “our” Capt Benny Rutland lie on YouTube.
The clarification came several days after a journalist for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, Patrick Martin, interviewed Palestinians living near the school and a teacher, who told him that none of the casualties were in the school but on the street outside.
Palestinian children injured in Israeli mortar attacks aren’t casualties, according to Rabinovich. He will keep his job.