montelatici, et al,
Wrong.
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The Israeli's did investigate. And they admitted to the strike. But it did not come from the bay or the Israeli Navy
(as so many claimed), but was indirect fire from Army Artillery.
NOTE: If any of you have been in a rocket or mortar attack, you know the echoes of buildings will confuse the sense of direction. But if you look at the video of the balcony strike, you can tell that the fire did not hit the building from the east (bay side and penetrating into the building) but was a glancing strike from the north.
The problem here is that the witnesses were not true witnesses of the event. They were the witnesses to the immediate aftermath and just assumed the strike came from Naval Gun Fire
(it accounts for the media not actually seeing naval gun fire from the bay). The witnesses were making up any story just to assign blame to the Israelis. And while it was ultimately --- an Israeli Strike, the truth did no come from eye witness accounts, but from the honesty of the Israeli Defense Force.
My point is, you cannot trust the Honesty and Integrity of the Palestinian.
Most Respectfully,
R
I don't trust the Honesty and Integrity of the Israeli. The old Zionist denial trick, eh. Why you bozos believe that this denial technique will be more effective than the Holocaust denial trick I don't know.
But you are wrong as usual:
Photographer was a witness, obviously:
Israeli Strike Kills Four Boys Playing on Gaza Beach - ABC News
The following makes clear that foreign reporters were witnesses:
"“The first strike hit at around 1300 GMT (4 p.m. local time), prompting terrified children and adults on the beach to scatter. A second and third struck as they ran, setting fire to huts on the beach,”
Agence France-Presse’s Sara Hussein wrote. “The strikes appeared to be the result of shelling by the Israeli navy against an area with small shacks used by fishermen.”
Hussein, along with
The Washington Post‘s William Booth and
The Guardian‘s Peter Beaumont, saw the attack and the aftermath...“There is a deafening explosion as it hits a structure on the pier, a place we have seen hit before, where fishermen usually store their nets. Behind the smoke, I see four figures running, silhouettes whose legs are pumping raggedly. They clear the smoke. From their size it is clear they are a man and three young boys,” Beaumont
wrote in his account of the attack seen from
Beaumont wrote the survivors fleeing the attack were targeted by a second shell, injuring them as they fled to safety.
“As it explodes, my colleagues, now standing by the terrace wall, shout at unseen Israeli gunners who can’t hear them: ‘They are only children,'” he wrote.
Journalists witness Gaza beach attack that killed at least 4 children - National Globalnews.ca
