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Originally posted by Wenchie
I can only find reports putting the death toll for the protest march at between 7 and 10....
Maybe you have a link to your 'media worldwide' sources?
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most of them have already changed the figure and it was done only after a palestinian doctor from the hospital where the bodies were brought confirmed that only 8 palestinians were killed. on the day of this incident, CNN and BBC (the TV stations, which report differently from their websites) reported "dozens" dead. this figure was eventually taken down to 30, 15, 12, 10, and so forth.. israel from the very beginning said only 8 were killed, yet that was of little importance to the media.. 20, 30 has a nicer ring to it.
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A figure of about 100 was initially put forth by an IDF spokesperson.....the figure of 500 was suggested by Erekat and was largely reported by world media as an 'alleged' figure that it was unable to either confirm or deny
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yet they reported it anyway.. they flooded the airwaves and newspapers all over the world with 500 and 600 dead without any proof. 500 or 600 innocent people killed in a cramped refugee camp by the mighty israeli army now that's the kind of headline that sells.
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perhaps had the media been allowed access to jenin earlier they would have been able to refute the claim by Erekat.
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the media was never banned from the camp. they were not allowed into certain areas where there was heavy fighting between troops and militants for their own protection and not because of israel's intention to hide anything.
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a quick google turned up an apology from Phil Reeves of The Independent posted on 3rd August 2002
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this was not an apology. he said journalists were "sometimes" wrong but that it's israel's fault we were wrong. that's after he compared what was going on in jenin to genocide in cambodia. he didn't bother to admit the real reason for the false reporting was the media's perception of the worst case scenario without any evidence, and that the images of tanks and armed soldiers inside a poor refugee camp would surely cause hundreds if not thousands of casualties. the bottomline is the media jumped the gun. they reported figures that were grossly inaccurate and they should apologize unequivocally and not simply shift the blame for their shitty reporting to israel.
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The UN report was compiled from second hand sources as they were denied access to the site......I wouldnt place too much weight on it.
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what are you talking about? the report was compiled from statements of UN officials who were at the scene, the palestinian red crescent, human right groups who had their people on the scene, and representatives from five different "neutral" countries. the report was accepted by kofi annan.. no massacres took place, the 500 or so dead is fiction.. 52 palestinians, most of them armed terrorists, and 24 israeli soldiers were killed.
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As for the media refusing to appear in the doco.....given the past treatment of journalists by Israelis they may just have felt it in their best interests not to comment....who knows....
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yeah i'm sure that's the reason
