Israel Says Its Forces Did Not Kill Palestinians Sheltering at U.N. School - NYTimes.com
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On Sunday, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, acknowledged that an errant mortar round fired by Israeli troops had exploded in the school’s courtyard that afternoon but said the yard had been empty at the time. He provided a video with 10 seconds of black-and-white footage shot by an Israeli drone that showed a blast in what appeared to be an empty courtyard. “It is extremely unlikely that anyone was killed as a result of that mortar,” he said.
Comme en 2009, la bataille sur les responsabilités commence. L’armée israélienne commence subtilement à semer le doute (notre obus a été tiré dans une cour vide, il n’y avait personne, ces morts ne sont pas nos morts - sans préciser « c’est les morts de qui »). Et une enquête indépendante pour identifier l’origine du tir, la nature ds munitions va être rendue difficile ou impossible par les autorités israéliennes, etc...)
JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas went back and forth on Sunday over proposals for a new cease-fire in the fighting in the Gaza Strip, and Israel sought to bolster its claim that its forces were not responsible for the deaths of 16 Palestinians reportedly killed in an attack on a United Nations school.
Palestinians who brought their dead and wounded relatives to a Gaza hospital after the attack on Thursday said that hundreds of people who sought shelter in the school had gathered in its courtyard, believing that buses were on the way to take them somewhere safer. Then a number of munitions fired by Israeli forces hit the school, they said, killing and wounding scores of people.
