Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent: UN backtracks on claim that deadly IDF strike hit Gaza school
Talkback
Title:It Smells Fishy To Me
Name:Jeff Northridge
City: Penn ValleyState: California
At first, UNRWA said that the Palestinian civilians were inside the school, and now, they claim that they were outside of it. Early reports of bombs or tank shells finally wound up being three 120 mm, WP, GPS-guided mortar rounds of which two were on target on an Hamas mortar crew which was firing from a yard adjacent to the school (no word yet whether the yard was inside or outside of the UNRWA compound) and one of which was "errant" and hit the school. I`ve seen 105 mm, WP and HE, artillery shells exploding before and there`s no way in hell that 1, 2, or 3 of them is going to kill 42 people all at once especially outdoors. And where are the wounded? Normally, there`s at least three times as many wounded as killed. Where are the WP burns on the victims? what about the two militants who were killed? Are they included in UNRWA`s total? Things just don`t seem to be adding up right here. You don`t suppose that the Palestinians dragged a few extra dead bodies into the school yard later?