False Claim by Abbas Goes Unchallenged
Before the latest cease-fire, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was quoted without challenge saying that since the summer,"thousands of [Gazan] homes have been destroyed." But is this true?
UPDATED: CAMERA has faulted the New York Times for sticking to its blame of Israel for a June 9 Gaza explosion despite evidence to the contrary. On June 14, the New York Times reported Israeli defense minister Amir Peretz's press conference about the IDF investigation into the explosion which concluded that Israel was not to blame. The article by Steven Erlanger and Ian Fisher also accurately attribute the idea of an "errant Israeli shell" being the source of the explosion to Gaza residents.