We have never even come across any similar claim about Gaza post-war reconstrution, suggesting that Palestinians must “surrender their house coordinates to the IOF [sic]” as a requirement for receiving building materials, and upon researching it further we were unable to find any source corroborating it.
So, we contacted COGAT (Coordinator of Israeli Government Activities in the West Bank and Gaza) to ask them about it. They responded by confirming that such information (on the purpose and location of proposed reconstruction sites in Gaza) is in fact sent, under the UN Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism, to the Palestinian Authority, not to the IDF.
Though the op-ed by Hawari is still full of anti-Zionist agitprop more befitting Mondoweiss than a respectable British daily, we nonetheless commend editors on the substantive correction.
- Israel Allows 1,000 Tons of Cement Into Gaza for Rebuilding Effort (algemeiner.com)
Categories: Corrections, Independent
Amnesty International has reported “Palestinians accused of war crimes…” (SkyNews headline). Here is the link
http://news.sky.com/story/1452888/amnesty-accuses-palestinians-of-war-crimes
Maybe we could prevail upon the good offices of the Independent and the Guardian to do a couple of op-eds on that one.
Unfortunately Amnesty is about to launch an ugly attack against Israel, accusing them of war crimes last summer, all based on Hamas’s own witness accounts and totally unverified by any respectable or trusted sources. This new report will be the twin of the Goldstone Report which has been proven to be one of the worst pieces of antisemitic libel that anyone could wish to read.
Fairlinda (@Fairlinda3) –
“Unfortunately Amnesty is about to launch an ugly attack against Israel, accusing them of war crimes,..”
…Unlike its attack against Palestinian war crimes, which was not ugly at all – but, instead, well-researched, properly verified by respectable sources, and absolutely spot-on in its findings…?
The antisemitic Independent is ‘respectable’? You are having a laugh.
‘more befitting Mondoweiss than a respectable British daily’
The Independent ‘a respectable British daily’ years ago.
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Stay classy San Diego .
The way that the Independent reports ‘news’ of Israel casts a pall of doubt over all that they write.