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Shelling of UN School: The Truth Emerges
Reporter Patrick Martin of the Globe & Mail investigates the shelling of Palestinian gunmen near a UN school that led to the tragic death of 43 civilians. His conclusion? The facts don't support the accepted story that the school itself was shelled:
Physical evidence and interviews with several eyewitnesses, including a teacher who was in the schoolyard at the time of the shelling, make it clear: While a few people were injured from shrapnel landing inside the white-and-blue-walled UNRWA compound, no one in the compound was killed. The 43 people who died in the incident were all outside, on the street, where all three mortar shells landed.
Stories of one or more shells landing inside the schoolyard were inaccurate.
While the killing of 43 civilians on the street may itself be grounds for investigation, it falls short of the act of shooting into a schoolyard crowded with refuge-seekers.
The lies and misconceptions were anticipated; but coverage in the BBC, Der Spiegel, and The Age show the truth about Gaza and the gunmen operating among civilians is getting out.
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I'm reminded of what Tom Clancy replied when asked about the difference between truth and fiction: "fiction has to make sense".
The BBC has mortgaged its credibility and, just as in the financial world, the risk it has taken outweighs the capital. What did it think it was doing, hiring Palestinians in Gaza as journalists then expecting un mugs to swallow the lie that their reportage was "impartial"?
I hope the world comes to see what a blinkered bully the BBC is.
Posted by: Frugal Dougal at Jan 29, 2009 6:56:49 PM
Surely the time has come for the talking heads of UNRWA who were accusing Israel of shelling the school and spreading Hamas propaganda when this incident happened to be stood down while an independent official investigation of UNRWA and its activities takes place?
Posted by: Anna at Jan 29, 2009 10:24:45 PM
It is time to get rid of UNRWA. How long can a refugee be a refugeee????/ 60 years and their children and grandchildren????? refugees never die. they are still kept on the record. All the other world refugees are resettled within 5 years!!!!! 60 YEARS???????
Posted by: diane cohen at Jan 30, 2009 3:34:21 PM
You know, when the truth becomes known the silence of the media often hurts your ears.
How is it, that this becomes a new article a half a world away, and you don't see this info in euope?
Don't they have reporters there?
Posted by: robins111 at Jan 30, 2009 8:34:46 PM
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