This is a perfect example of the hearsay I was just referring to. As you know the so called "Jenin massacres" that Arafat never fails to mention on TV involved over 500 hundred victims. Just a few days ago I heard on french TV that Palestinians now claim 56 dead!
Laurent > Israeli drone films Palestinians faking funeral in > Jenin > By israelinsider staff May 3, 2002 > > [picture] > A man pretending to be a corpse (to the left of the > yellow arrow) climbs onto a green blanket. He "came > back to life" after the "pallbearers" dropped him. > (IDF) > > IDF briefing about faked funeral, with more still > pictures > > In a press briefing Thursday, IDF Intelligence > Officer Colonel Miri Eisen screened a four minute tape > of a staged Palestinian funeral photographed by an > Israeli drone flying over Jenin on Monday, April 28. > Pallbearers repeatedly tried to carry a green blanket > wrapped around a man who pretended to be dead, but > kept falling out of the blanket. The funeral took > place between the area that was destroyed in the Jenin > refugee camp and the nearby cemetery. > > The Palestinians, Col. Eisen said, sought "to show as > many casualties as possible were buried inside Jenin. > They tried to falsify evidence in preparation for the > committee by executing a fake [funeral] ceremony, > carrying the 'body' and filming the entire process." > > The film was screened to foreign reporters and later > shown on Israeli television, causing considerable > amusement among the TV commentators and journalists, > since the "corpse" kept tumbling out of the blanket. > "One time he falls off the stretcher when he is > already in a crowd," Col. Eisen narrated. "When he > came back to life in the middle of the crowd, the > crowd breaks up because they didn't know that it > wasn't really a corpse." Israel Radio reported that > many reporters laughed at the point in the tape that > the "corpse" seemed to "rise from the dead," causing > the people around him to flee in terror. > > "The video, said Col. Eisen, "constitutes only one > filmed proof of what has been happening in Jenin in > the last weeks," and the IDF intended to produce > additional documentation in the coming days. > Palestinians have tried to create various types of > false evidence to exaggerate what transpired in Jenin > and support false claims of atrocities. > > Israeli intelligence sources reported that > Palestinians have been exhuming corpses from nearby > cemeteries and burying them in a mass grave of those > who fought the Israelis in Jenin. Even so, even the > Palestinians have reported no more than 52 recovered > bodies, in sharp contrast to earlier claims, by > Palestinian minister Saeb Erekat and others, of more > than 500 dead. IDF senior officials reported earlier > this week on Israeli television that animal carcasses > were also hauled to the refugee camp to create the > "stench of death."
