Monday, July 14, 2003
That title should probably read "Used to confirm," since it doesn't sound like anyone stepped forward to give testimony, but the report producers did what the Western press never does - actually look at what Arab sources say to each other.
Israel News : Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
The battle took place between April 4 and April 11 of 2002.
The research, which was conducted by Jonathan D. HaLevi and the JCPA from a wide and comprehensive variety of Palestinian written testimony and material which was published recently in Palestinian newspapers, books and Websites, reveals for the first time that Palestinian terror organizations saw themselves as armed combatants and not as civilians who died in a deadly massacre.
The 35 page study, which is based on primary sources, clearly illustrates that Fatah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas prepared themselves thoroughly with automatic weapons, grenades, anti-tank missiles and explosives and perceived the confrontation with IDF troops as nothing less than a "military to military battle." [...]
