how can anyone, after the fact, figure
out what happened?
the artillery shell could be a new or dud
shell wire as a bomb.
The newspaper said Irbad evaded most of the questions addressed to him.
Asked why he didn’t try to calm Hadil instead of filming her he said: “She asked me to film her. She wanted to be seen next to her father to show the world the crimes that Israel is committing.”
The newspaper finally asks: “Did the shocked 10-year-old girl, who had lost her father minutes earlier, give the cameraman direction instructions?”
Well, for one thing the dead and injured were taken to an Israeli hospital. The shrapnel removed was inconsistent with artillery, the victims were not in the location where the artillery was aimed, the incident occurred about five minutes after the shelling had ceased, the crater on the beach was inconsistent with an artillery crater, but completely consistent with a buried charge.
As Mary Mapes would point out, it hasn't been proved that it wasn't Israeli artillery and Israelis are guilty until proven beyond peradventure to be innocent.
Ask yourself, cui bono, who benefits? Who is likely to benefit from pictures of dead, injured and sobbing Palestinians splashed across the world's newspapers and TV screens? Da Jooz, of course! Also Neocons, Haliburton, Republicans, White Males, the Usual Suspects.