IDF: We did not hit Beit Hanoun house

[msmcghee]

Military inquiry into incident which left Palestinian mother, four of her children dead, concludes family was hurt by detonation of weapons carried out by nearby gunman targeted by IAF missile. Army releases footage caught by UAV proving missile did not target Gaza home

Hanan Greenberg
Published: 05.02.08, 15:57 / Israel News

An Israel Defense Forces investigation into Monday's incident in Gaza, which left a mother and her four children dead, confirmed Friday that the family was not hit by Israel Air Force fire, but rather by a detonation of weapons carried out by a nearby gunman who was targeted by an IAF missile.

The IDF released footage caught by an unmanned aerial vehicle, proving its claims. The gunman's weapons exploded as a result of the residual blast, which in turn caused the ricochets which apparently hit the family.

The inquiry revolved around a report claiming that an IDF shell hit a house in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, killing five members of the Abu Meatak family.

IDF officials noted that the missile fired at the gunman is considered accurate and with a small amount of explosives.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3538733,00.html

[mac2]

1. Just a itty bitty missle eh?

[msmcghee]

2. The released video footage . .

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1209626993427&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[bemildred]

3. Israeli Gaza deaths report disputed

The Israeli army has blamed Palestinian fighters for the deaths of a Gaza mother and her four young children following an Israeli air raid in Beit Hanoun last week.

The military's report contradicts one by B'Tselem, an independent Israeli human rights group, which found that the family was killed by a strike from an Israeli missile.

The army said on Friday that its investigation of the killing of Meissar Abu Megteg and her children found that secondary blasts from ammunition backpacks carried by the fighters were to blame.

But B'Tselem maintains there is "no evidence" of any secondary explosion.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9486D718-4826-4777-9731-EF35F062A765.htm

[oberliner]

4. Have you seen the video?

What are your thoughts?

[bemildred]

5. I have no opinion at present.

I haven't seen the video. I don't usually do web videos, but I make occasional exceptions.