[CAMERA] Alex Safian - The brigade commander of the unit linked to alleged killings of civilians in Gaza launched his own investigation after hearing of the charges, speaking with actual eyewitnesses, all of whom said that the alleged killings had not taken place. On March 22, Maariv reported the results of his investigation in "IDF Investigation Refutes the Testimonies about Gaza Killings" by Amir Buhbut. In the incident claiming that a sniper fired at a Palestinian woman and her two daughters, the sniper related: "I saw the woman and her daughters....I did not shoot at them but I fired warning shots." In the other alleged incident, the killing by a sniper of an elderly woman, the investigation found that there was no such incident. Yet both Ha'aretz and the New York Times gave these stories great play despite a clear lack of evidence.
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