User:Jaakobou/Other controversies

Notice!!!
This is material which was removed in a content dispute. I do not intend to edit war, but it represents material which I'd like to see back in the article when it can be properly sourced and discussed. Sadly, I have a large number of disputes on my hands and didn't yet get around to fix this issue.  Jaakobou Chalk Talk  02:56, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Jenin

Following numerous suicide bombings in the previous month by Palestinian militants on Israeli civilians, culminating with a suicide bombing at Park Hotel in Netanya during a Passover holiday meal (March 27, 2002), in which 30 Israelis were killed and 140 were injured; Israel had deployed the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to conduct what it considered a large-scale counter-terrorist offensive, called 'Operation Defensive Shield'.

Videotaped funeral
A popular video footage of a fake burial procession, occuring between the destroyed area in the Jenin refugee camp and the nearby cemetery and shot by an aerial drone on April 28, showed Palestinians acting as pallbearers carrying a green blanket-wrapped "corpse" who repeatedly falls and then stands up and places himself back in the blanket. At some point they are joined by a crowd who runs away as the man falls, perhaps startled when the "corpse" comes to life. (VIDEO) On Sunday, May 5, a Palestinian advocay group called 'LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment' denied the story and compared the evidence with images shot by Mohammad Bakri's, (Palestinian actor and film producer) latest project who was filming at the same location, they pertained that what was perceived as a staged 'burial' was actually a group of children playing "funeral" near the cemetry in Jenin. They add that the footage shows no flags which are usually is seen at many Palestinian funerals, and the children were running, which is not common for an actual funeral. According to them, the Israeli and foreign media quoted the Israeli army representative, Colonel Miri Eisen stating, "the film speaks for itself," adding "they tried to fabricate evidence of funerals to inflate the number of their dead." without criticism or investigating to what the footage actually shows.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20020503/ai_n12463822/pg_1

Flown in blood units
During the battle, Dr. David Zangen, chief medical officer of the Israeli paratroop unit that was fighting in Jenin, reported that the IDF had worked to keep the local Palestinian hospital open and that Israeli doctors had offered the Palestinians blood for their wounded, who then refused to be given "Jewish blood". Col. Arik Gordin of the IDF Office of Military Spokesmen has stated Israel subsequently flew in 2,000 units of blood from Jordan and arranged 40 more units of blood from the Muqased Hospital (East Jerusalem), which were sent to the Ramallah and Tulkarm hospitals, and also facilitated the delivery of 1,800 units of anti-coagulants that had come from Morocco.