Goldstone Ignores His Own Evidence about Flour Mill
An image from UNITAR of the Al Badr flour mill contradicting Goldstone’s report that Israel targeted the facility with an air strike
In an open letter, CAMERA challenged Judge Richard Goldstone on his findings that Israel deliberately targeted the Al Bader flour mill in a Jan. 9, 2009 air strike in order to deprive the civilian population of a food source. Goldstone declined to address the contradictions of his conclusion, and Elder of Ziyon blogger now observes that the judge even ignored contradictory evidence that he himself commissioned. Elder writes:
It turns out that Goldstone had photographic proof that the flour mill was not hit by airstrikes as well – and purposefully ignored it.
The Goldstone commission asked UNITAR, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, to examine and analyze publicly available satellite images of various locations in Gaza to determine the dates and extent of damage. One of the sites was the infamous flour mill. . . .
UNITAR, based on a time sequence of satellite images, finds that all the damage seems to have occurred a full week after Goldstone’s “credible witnesses” said it was strafed by multiple air attacks – while the IDF was on the ground, fighting. And damage on the upper floors done by Apache helicopters would presumably be visible on satellite images.
Furthermore, the IDF has released its follow up report on Operation Cast Lead, which likewise concludes that the flour mill was hit by IDF tank fire during the course of combat in the area.
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