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February 16, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304788705&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

IDF: Only 3 - Not 40 - Noncombatants Killed Near UN School During Gaza War

[Jerusalem Post] David Horovitz - The most emblematic distortion of the death toll in the Gaza war relates to the deaths near the UN school in Jabalya on Jan. 6. Palestinian medical officials claimed that some 40 Palestinians, many of them women and children, were killed at the school by IDF shells. These claims sparked condemnation from the UN, widespread allegations of a "massacre" against Israel and escalated international political demands for an urgent end to the fighting. The IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA) reported on Sunday, after careful checking, that the Palestinian death toll in that incident - which involved Israel returning fire against Hamas gunmen outside the school facility - caused 12 fatalities, nine gunmen and three noncombatants.

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