Re: How the PA Blamed Israel for the Deaths on the Beach WWW.PROISRAELFOREVER.COM
- From: "Theodore Herzl" <AntiZioNazi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 Jun 2006 17:22:04 -0700
proisraelforever@xxxxxxx wrote:
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) released a report on
Saturday full of inaccuracies about the incident - and has not yet
released a correction or apology.
The organization, whose reports are widely relied upon by the United
Nations and other organizations, announced the following:
"PCHR's preliminary investigation indicates that the attack which
killed seven members of the same family took place at approximately
16:40 on Friday, 9 June 2006. An Israeli naval boat stationed off the
coast of Beit Lahya fired seven successive artillery shells at
civilians on the beach in the Waha area, north of Beit Lahya. The
shells landed on the beach, which had been crowded with civilian men,
women and children at the time. Seven civilians from the same family
(father, mother and five children) were killed. A sixth child from the
same family escaped death but was seen on television crying
hysterically beside her father's body. A further 32 civilians,
including 13 children, were injured... Israeli television Channel 2
broadcast footage of the Israeli boat firing the shells at the beach,
with one of the navy soldiers scanning the beach with binoculars; thus
indicating that the crime had been perpetrated with a premeditated
intent to kill."
An indication of PCHR's bias is the fact that it consistently refers to
the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as the IOF - the Israeli Occupation
Forces. The organization gathered data that led to the issuing of an
arrest warrant in Great Britain against Gen. (ret.) Doron Almog in 2005
for "war crimes." He was to be charged with overseeing the dropping of
a one-ton bomb in Gaza that killed Hamas arch-murderer Salah Shehadeh
and several children in July 2002.
Despite the PCHR claim that the explosion occurred at 16:40, the IDF
investigation showed that the explosion did not occur before 16:58. IDF
Southern Command O.C. Gen. Yoav Galant said that the IDF artillery in
the area stopped firing at 16:51, and that at 16:58, "the IDF's
electronic surveillance did not show any unusual activity on the
beach."
Arab affairs expert Yonatan D. HaLevy writes, "The PCHR version has
turned rumors into 'facts' which then become 'proof' for PCHR to
determine that Israeli naval soldiers 'meant to kill' the family."
Writing for the NFC Hebrew news site, HaLevy adds, "The IDF fires 155mm
artillery shells towards open areas in order to thwart the Kassam
launchers, and often warns the locals not to be there. In the present
case, it is very doubtful as to whether the family was hit by a 155mm
shell. I carefully reviewed the video clips disseminated by the PA
television, and the documentation of [Channel Two], and I did not find
the large hole that a 155mm shell [would have made]."
HaLevy said that for their part, the Arabs of the PA "made sure to
exhibit the bodies of the dead, but refrained from showing the crater
and the shrapnel as proof of their claims."
Gen. (ret.) Yom Tov Samiyeh said, "It is almost certain that the
incident [in which seven members of one family on a Gaza beach were
killed in an explosion] was an accident caused by the Palestinians, and
that the Palestinians took advantage of the situation to besmirch
Israel."
"I can imagine," Samiyeh said, "that there was some sort of mine, or at
worst, even a set-up that the Palestinians arranged." He added that
during his years of army service as IDF Southern District Commander, he
experienced a number of incidents in which the Arabs set up attacks on
citizens.
The IDF investigation has so far shown that Israeli Navy ships
definitely did not fire towards the beach at that time, based on the
type of wounds and other evidence. HaLevy notes that video clips of
navy sailors firing and scanning the beach were photographed at an
earlier hour.
HonestReporting.com, in a detailed review of the topic, notes that
"many in the international media [rushed] to conclusions in the
immediate aftermath of the terrible incident. For example, despite
suggestions that a single artillery shell was responsible, the Guardian
claimed that "a barrage of Israeli artillery shells rained down on a
busy Gaza beach...", while the Independent, without waiting for
confirmation or otherwise, attributed the incident to "Israeli naval
gunboats". In fact, while the most likely explanation is a single stray
artillery shell, the possibility of a Qassam missile fired from Gaza
itself has not yet been discounted and has been made more difficult to
ascertain due to Palestinian refusals to cooperate with Israeli
investigators."
What a load of crap. The Israelis, like the Nazis, are cleverly trying
to blame the victims of the IDF reckless terror attack once again.
Just like they tried to blame Iian hook for his own death (until forced
to admit it was murder by an IDF thug) or the IDF murder of Tom
Hurndall. In both cases, the IDF attempted to blame the victims, but
in both cases the IDF was found to have murdered the victims in cold
blood and refused to prosecute the murderers until forced to do so by
international pressure, although the Israeli regime still harbors and
refuses to hand over Hurndall's murderer to face trial for war crimes.
Bottom line is that the IDF is missing one shell, one shell that was
fired at a family on the beach, probably intentionally, but we likely
will never know if the IDF's notoriously racist and criminal Southern
Command was involved.
.
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