[Wenchie]

Originally posted by schmooky007 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.

At the risk of sounding impolite.......

thats absolute rubbish.

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

The report of " the number of Palestinian casualties at around 100 in Jenin" as I said was put forth by Brigadier General Ron Kitrey, Spokesperson for the IDF ......which he at a later time clarified to mean dead and wounded.
Again.....the reports of '500 deaths' were largely reported as 'alleged by Palestinians' as opposed to being reported as hard cold fact.......and again this could possibly have been avoided had journalists had access to the site.

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.

the media was barred from Jenin for approximately 2 weeks ( 3rd - 17th April) and initially after that 'selected' journalists were given 'restricted' access in that they were allowed to 'tour' the camp under IDF supervision

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..

Tenth emergency special session
Agenda item 5
Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem
and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Report of the Secretary-General prepared pursuant
to General Assembly resolution ES-10/10

This report was prepared on the basis of General Assembly resolution ES-10/10, adopted on 7 May 2002, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to present a report, drawing upon the available resources and information, on the recent events that took place in Jenin and other Palestinian cities. The General Assembly requested the report following the disbandment of the United Nations fact-finding team that had been convened by the Secretary-General in response to Security Council resolution 1405 (2002) (2002) of 19 April 2002.

The report was written without a visit to Jenin or the other Palestinian cities in question and it therefore relies completely on available resources and information, including submissions from five United Nations Member States and Observer Missions, documents in the public domain and papers submitted by non-governmental organizations. The Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs wrote to the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations requesting them to submit information but only the latter did so. In the absence of a response from Israel, the United Nations has relied on public statements of Israeli officials and publicly available documents of the Government of Israel relevant to the request in resolution ES-10/10.

no massacres took place

that depends on your definition of the word itself

the 500 or so dead is fiction..

true

52 palestinians, most of them armed terrorists,

around half of them armed and half civilians