* ERASING HISTORY * UN backtracks on claim that deadly IDF strike hit Gaza school

Tuesday 3 February 2009

* ERASING HISTORY * UN backtracks on claim that deadly IDF strike hit Gaza school

03.02.2009
HAARETZ
UN backtracks on claim that deadly IDF strike hit Gaza school
... Maxwell Gaylord, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Jerusalem ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061189.html

Posted AT 4:00 AM EST on 29/01/09
GLOBE AND MAIL
"Account of Israeli attack doesn't hold up to scrutiny

PATRICK MARTIN

From Thursday's Globe and Mail
JABALYA, GAZA STRIP — Most people remember the headlines: Massacre Of Innocents As UN School Is Shelled; Israeli Strike Kills Dozens At UN School.They heralded the tragic news of Jan. 6, when mortar shells fired by advancing Israeli forces killed 43 civilians in the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090129.wgazaschool29/BNStory/International/

As GLOBE AND MAIL said, "There was just one problem: The story was not quite accurate".
I think just this about HAARETZ and GLOBE AND MAIL articles:
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PLUS,
WARNING:
ASMA Elementary School in Gaza City 06 JANUARY 2009
JABALIYA - UN SCHOOL 06 JANUARY 2009
BEITH LAHIYA - UN SCHOOL - WHITE PHOSPHOROUS - 17 JANUARY 2009
3 DIFFERENT events

06.01.2009
REUTERS UK
UN official says Gaza school was clearly marked
Tue Jan 6, 2009 5:39pm GMT
John Ging, director of operations in Gaza for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, said the death toll in the Israeli artillery strike near the school in Jabalya refugee camp was 30 dead with another 55 people injured.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKN06430746

06.01.2009 11:31 PM
GUARDIAN.CO.UK / Associated Press
Israel shells near UN school, killing at least 30
Tuesday January 6, 2009 11:31 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-8204350,00.html

07.01.2009
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Gaza: Israeli Attack on School Needs Full UN Investigation
"... Israel's January 6 attack just outside a UN school housing displaced persons in the Jabaliya refugee camp..."
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/01/07/gaza-israeli-attack-school-needs-full-un-investigation

07.01.2009
Al Mezan Center
According to information verified by Al Mezan Center, at approximately 3:35pm yesterday, Tuesday 6 January 2009, the IOF fired four artillery shells in the vicinity of Al-Fakhoura School, which UNRWA had opened as a shelter for displaced civilians who escaped the fighting in north Gaza. Three shells landed and exploded in an open area opposite to the southwestern schoolyard. The fourth landed 50 meters west to the school, directly hitting two houses, which are inhabited by the families two brothers; Mu'in and Samir Deeb. Most of the members of these two families were killed. In all, the shelling killed 39 civilians immediately, and three others died at hospital from their wounds, raising the number of casualties to 42; including 13 children and 6 women. Another 50 civilians were also injured in this attack. Of whom, 15 were children and 10 women.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/CJAL-7N3NV2?OpenDocument

07.01.2009
UNRWA
John Ging, Director of Operations in Gaza for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), speaking via video-link to a Headquarters press conference. In addition to the 30 people killed, 55 others had been injured by three Israeli artillery shells landing on the perimeter of a United Nations school in the Jabaliya refugee camp, where civilians had fled seeking refuge from the ongoing violence.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-7N3MNE?OpenDocument

Mr. Ging said the three Israeli shells impacted right up against the boundary of the school and both he and Mr. Holmes said the conflicting reports underscored why an independent investigation of the incident was so necessary.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=29484

http://un.org/unrwa/news/statements/gaza_crisis/fakhura_school_jan09.html

07.01.2009
IDF
The IDF bombed the UNRWA school, Fakhura, on Tuesday after militants fired mortars at troops from inside the school, according to the IDF Spokesman's Office. The bodies of militants were found inside, it added.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053455.html

The Guardian UK
"...The medical director of the hospital in Jabaliya told the Guardian 41 bodies had been brought in so far and more could be on the way. Reuters journalists filmed bodies scattered on the ground amid pools of blood and torn shoes and clothes. In addition to the dead, several dozen people were wounded, hospital officials said..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/06/gaza-israel-death-un

THE INDEPENDENT UK
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/massacre-of-innocents-as-un-school-is-shelled-1230045.html