Israeli military police are investigating whether an air strike which killed 21 members of the same family sheltering in a building during the Army's Gaza offensive in 2008-9 was authorised by a senior brigade commander who had been warned of the danger to civilians.
The new turn in the enquiry has cast a fresh spotlight on what is widely thought to be the worst single incident involving civilian casualties during Operation Cast Lead, the missile attack on a building in the Zeitoun district of Gaza City, where around 100 members of the extended Samouni family were taking refuge on the morning of 4 January, 2009.
The missile attack, which also injured 19 people, came early in the ground offensive. According to many Palestinian witnesses, it came after troops in the Givati brigade ordered dozens of family members, including women and children, to move to the building the previous day.
More at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/it-was-the-gaza-assaults-worst-atrocity-now-the-truth-may-finally-be-told-2114250.html Labeling it the "worst" is nonsense. "Only one more in a long history of atrocities is now being investigated a bit" would be a better title.
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