Human Rights Watch Backs Off
The sad story of the Palestinian family blown up on a beach in Gaza lead the Pali supporting folks at Human Rights Watch to leap to the conclusion that it must have been either an errant or, worse, targetted Israeli shell which did the damage. This assertion was unsupported by any actual, well, evidence. The IDF denied it after conducting an investigation. But the lefites took it up as yet another example of the nasty Jews blowing up the Palis in retaliation for the Palis sending rocket barages directly at Israeli civilian targets.
Now HRW is back away from its claims:
Garlasco told Klifi during the meeting that he was impressed with the IDF’s system of checks and balances concerning its artillery fire in the Gaza Strip and unlike Hamas which specifically targeted civilians in its rocket attacks, the Israelis, he said, invested a great amount of resources and efforts not to harm innocent civilians.
“We do not believe the Israelis were targeting civilians.” Garlasco said. “We just want to know if it was an Israeli shell that killed the Palestinians.”
Lucy Mair - head of the HRW’s Jerusalem office - said Klifi’s team had conducted a thorough and professional investigation of the incident and made “a good assessment” when ruling out the possibility that an errant IDF shell had killed the seven Palestinians on the Gaza beach. ”
jerusalem post
Now, HRW might go one step further and condemn Hamas and the Pali terrorists who it admits could care less if they hit Israeli civilians…
And we can look forward to fulsome appologies from the left for taking the Pali spin at face value….
Written by jay on June 20th, 2006 with
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#1. June 28th, 2006, at 4:32 AM.
What’s it been? A week? Still no apology from the Palis and their pals. Maybe Hamas is too busy.