"An Israeli human rights group quietly retracted its inaccurate coverage in which it accused the IDF of killing innocent Arab civilians, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs reports.
Middle East expert and terror researcher Lt.-Col. (res.) Yehonatan Dahoah-Halevy exposed two conflicting reports that the B’Tselem-Israeli Information Center for Human Rights organization published on the group’s website. The group, which initially accused the IDF of war crimes by “butchering innocent Arabs,” has now changed its reportage of an incident that took place nearly five years ago as a legitimate “attack on a military target.” However, the group hasn’t yet officially apologized to the IDF for its slanderous statement.
The first version of the B’Tselem group’s story reported that the IDF killed 14 Palestinian Authority Arabs “not engaged in fighting” during an Israel Air Force aerial attack on a Hamas community center on September 7, 2004. Ostensibly, Arab civilians were wrongly killed while engaging in a harmless cultural activity. The casualties were included in B’Tselem’s database of Arab civilians killed by the IDF.
Now, nearly five years later, B’Tselem reports that the Arabs were “engaged in fighting” and “were stationed at a Hamas training camp.”
Dahoah-Halevy notes that on the very day of the attack, Hamas itself made an official announcement stating that the bombed target was a training camp and that the 14 Arabs that were killed were members of the Al-Kassam military brigade of Hamas."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132520
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