Britannia Radio

Thursday, 29th January 2009

An incendiary error

3:23pm

Remember the UNRWA school in Gaza which was reputedly shelled by the Israelis during the war in Gaza with the reported deaths of 30-40 civilians who had taken refuge inside it? This was presented by Hamas and the UNRWA high command as a major atrocity. In response, the Israelis maintained that they had been returning fire from the school. After an investigation, they amended this to say the firing had come from a compound adjacent to the school; they had returned fire with three shells, one of which had hit the school by mistake.

Now it appears the school wasn’t hit at all. Canada’s Globe and Mail reports that, according to local eye-witnesses, those who died were all outside the school in the street where all three Israeli shells landed:

While a few people were injured from

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