Rights group says Israel strike killed five Palestinians

Associated Press

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“JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip — A Palestinian human rights group and an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday that an explosion in a cemetery that killed five Palestinian children during a flare-up in Gaza was caused by an Israeli airstrike and not an errant Palestinian rocket. It was one of a number of recent blasts that did not bear the tell-tale signs of an Israeli F-16 or drone strike, and which Israel said may have been caused by rockets misfired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group. The five children, aged 4 to 16, had gathered in the cemetery, one of the few open spaces in the Jebaliya refugee camp, on Aug. 7. Residents said a projectile fell from the air. When The Associated Press visited the site, it saw none of the usual signs of an airstrike by an Israeli F-16 or drone, adding to suspicions that the blast was caused by an errant rocket. On Tuesday, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said its investigation of shrapnel and other evidence led it to conclude that the blast was caused by an Israeli airstrike.”

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The five children are not named here. They were aged four to sixteen and had gathered in the cemetery because it is one of the few open spaces in the camp. The Associated Press prints its own observation against itself in this brief: its reporters had visited the site, seen none of the usual signs of an Israeli strike, and said so, and that suspicion runs in the same seven paragraphs as the finding that contradicts it.

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"Rights group says Israel strike killed five Palestinians," The Boston Globe, 17 August 2022. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-051. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-051