"...a computerized targeting system attached to a GPS. Brigade commanders say they were very effective, but they were also responsible for two very serious mishaps: a strike on a UNRWA school that killed 42 Palestinians and a friendly fire incident that seriously wounded two officers."
A cheap US available GPS unit, even an old one, will have an error radius of about 30 meters even though it is capable of much finer granularity.
One would think a military grade munition would have a better radius of error.
That being said, this article puts to rest the death toll, it was 42 as reported, and it establishes that Israeli forces were responsible for firing white phosphorous at the UN compound that has been the center of the most controversy with other possible war crimes such as the indiscriminate destruction of civilian infrastructure and even live graduating police cadets as schoolchildren were changing classes. |
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