The United Nations report released over the weekend regarding the October 7th 2000 videotape made 18 hours after of the abduction of IDF soldiers indicated that the UN is taking responsibility for \"serious errors in judgment\" in their decision not to release the tape immediately. The UN also reaffirms that a second videotape was made on the day of the kidnapping but reiterated, that it does not shed any light on the case. But Hayim Avraham, the father of kidnapped soldier Benny Avraham, told Arutz 7 today that there are in fact three videotapes, and analysis of them leads to \"some extremely serious conclusions\" about the timing of the making of the films. Avraham also said that he flatly refuses to travel to UN headquarters in New York to look at the videotapes. \"There are no UN offices in Israel?\" he asked rhetorically.
Israel has demanded the unedited videotapes, but UN officials have denied requests from high-level officials, including the Prime Minister and Defense Minister. UN officials explained that they were balancing Israel\'s demands against opposing demands from the government of Lebanon. In the parts of the video released by the UN thus far, the amount of blood seen in the vehicle used for the abduction indicates that the three soldiers may have been seriously injured or killed in the abduction by Hizbullah, but nothing definitive can be determined.
The UN Secretary General has offered to allow Lebanese and Israeli officials to look at an edited version of the videotapes and to view items retrieved from the vehicles that UNIFIL forces removed from the scene. The items include bloodstained personal belongings of the IDF soldiers. But the UN refuses to turn them over to the army or to the families, or allow Israeli laboratories to examine the bloodied articles. UN stonewalling aside, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said that efforts to bring the soldiers home would continue.
Israel has demanded the unedited videotapes, but UN officials have denied requests from high-level officials, including the Prime Minister and Defense Minister. UN officials explained that they were balancing Israel\'s demands against opposing demands from the government of Lebanon. In the parts of the video released by the UN thus far, the amount of blood seen in the vehicle used for the abduction indicates that the three soldiers may have been seriously injured or killed in the abduction by Hizbullah, but nothing definitive can be determined.
The UN Secretary General has offered to allow Lebanese and Israeli officials to look at an edited version of the videotapes and to view items retrieved from the vehicles that UNIFIL forces removed from the scene. The items include bloodstained personal belongings of the IDF soldiers. But the UN refuses to turn them over to the army or to the families, or allow Israeli laboratories to examine the bloodied articles. UN stonewalling aside, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said that efforts to bring the soldiers home would continue.