Not exactly a surprise. The only surprise is that an Amnesty International researcher is willing to talk about it.
Donatella Rovera, an Amnesty field investigator, wrote an interesting article about the challenges of fact finding in war situations.
“Fear can lead victims and witnesses to withhold evidence or give deliberately erroneous accounts of incidents. In Gaza, I received partial or inaccurate information by relatives of civilians accidentally killed in accidental explosions or by rockets launched by Palestinian armed groups towards Israel that had malfunctioned and of civilians killed by Israeli strikes on nearby Palestinian armed groups’ positions. When confronted with other evidence obtained separately, some said they feared reprisals by the armed groups.”
Donatella was apparently honest enough to try and get the facts. Most groups including the media don’t bother. They want stories about Israeli unprovoked attacks on civilians and they bolster their stories with eyewitness testimony from civilians in the conflict zone living under the authority of the terrorist groups responsible.
Meaning that “eyewitnesses” will often claim that there was no terrorist activity in the area of an airstrike and Israel wantonly and indiscriminately killed people for no reason.
It’s nearly impossible to get accurate eyewitness accounts under such conditions. Especially when dealing with groups that routinely execute anyone they accuse of being collaborators.
The media is sometimes an even worse offender than groups like Amnesty International. Even bad human rights groups make some effort to assemble data. The media rarely does. It simply splashes straight propaganda onto paper in a virtually pre-written format that challenges little from year to year.





















