The two Palestinian Authority children who were killed last week during a protest in Gaza - an incident for which Israel was roundly censored throughout the world - were killed by Arab gunmen.
IMRA (www.imra.org.il) reports that an official IDF source, confirming a story in Haaretz on May 21, said that the two children were murdered not by Israeli tank fire or an Israeli-initiated explosion, as had been widely assumed, but rather by Palestinian terrorists. The Israeli army has photographs of the incident, but the IDF source explained that the pictures have not been released because information derived from the photographs would "compromise security in the field at this time."
Buried deep inside his article of May 21, Amir Oren of Haaretz wrote that the killing of the two children took place shortly after "the procession with armed men in its midst set out in the direction of the [Israeli] forces." At a certain point, "[when Arab] men obeyed the calls over the loudspeakers to turn themselves in to the IDF authorities, they were confronted by members of the terror organizations, who opened fire on them and killed two children. A senior officer in Gaza reported yesterday that the IDF have in their possession pictures of this incident, of Palestinians killing their children..."
IMRA (www.imra.org.il) reports that an official IDF source, confirming a story in Haaretz on May 21, said that the two children were murdered not by Israeli tank fire or an Israeli-initiated explosion, as had been widely assumed, but rather by Palestinian terrorists. The Israeli army has photographs of the incident, but the IDF source explained that the pictures have not been released because information derived from the photographs would "compromise security in the field at this time."
Buried deep inside his article of May 21, Amir Oren of Haaretz wrote that the killing of the two children took place shortly after "the procession with armed men in its midst set out in the direction of the [Israeli] forces." At a certain point, "[when Arab] men obeyed the calls over the loudspeakers to turn themselves in to the IDF authorities, they were confronted by members of the terror organizations, who opened fire on them and killed two children. A senior officer in Gaza reported yesterday that the IDF have in their possession pictures of this incident, of Palestinians killing their children..."