Messenger Inquirer · 1 March 1994

CP-1994-050

Palestinians question official account

Karin Laub

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Transcribed from the clipping

“Challenging the army’s account of the mosque massacre, worshiper Maliha Jaberi said Israeli soldiers burst into a chamber… shooting and found that a soldier could fire 111 bullets in 30 seconds. ‘It was very easy to harm a lot of people,’ Yatom said.”

Context added by this archive

A named Palestinian worshiper, Maliha Jaberi, contradicting the army. The same wire reporter, Karin Laub, appears elsewhere in this archive on Palestinian women. Printed the same day as a paper in Virginia ran the army’s account under its own headline.

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"Palestinians question official account," Messenger Inquirer, 1 March 1994. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1994-050. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1994-050

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