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Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
By Thalif Deen, IPS News
Posted on January 15, 2009, Printed on January 15, 2009
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
Did the Israelis misidentify a school run by the U.N. Relief Works Agency (UNWRA), where 43 Palestinians seeking shelter were killed in an early morning air strike? Or were there Hamas gunmen shooting from the school drawing Israeli fire?
Neither assertion is accurate, says John Ging, UNRWA’s director of operations in Gaza.
All U.N. schools in Gaza are clearly marked, and they fly the Organization’s distinctly discernible blue-and-white flags.
Moreover, he told reporters, Israel has been provided with Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates of all of UNRWA’s installations in Gaza.
So there could not have been a misidentification of the U.N. school in the Jabaliya refugee camp whose compound was hit by an artillery shell early this week… Rest of story is: here.
Filed under: international politics, News Tagged: | Gaza, Gaza Strip, Human Rights, Israel, palestinian, UN, war
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