No wonder they didn't want reporters there. Here's more astonishing journalism about atrocities in the Gaza strip, this time by Don Nissenbaum of McClatchy chain:
Souad Abed Rabbo said that she tied a white robe around
a mop handle and two of her granddaughters waved white headscarves as
they walked outside.
When they opened the door, they saw an Israeli tank parked in their garden about 10 yards away.
"We
were waiting for them to give us an order," Khaled said last week as he
stood in the ruins of his home. "Then one came out of the tank and
started to shoot."
Souad Abed Rabbo said she was shot as she
pushed her son back inside and her granddaughters fell on the stairs.
When the shooting was over, she said, 2-year-old Amal and 7-year-old
Souad were dead.
The allegation is one of at least five such
white flag incidents that human rights investigators are looking into
across the Gaza Strip. It's part of a growing pattern of alleged abuses
that have raised concerns that some Israeli soldiers may have committed
war crimes during their 22-day military campaign in Gaza.
Human Rights Watch says "this was not a rogue unit." And Nissenbaum reports that Israel plans to protect these soldiers from investigation. (Phil Weiss, and emphases are mine; thanks to Sebastian)
