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11 March 2010
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Holes are shot in army's denial of Gaza attack
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Israel denies bombing a flour mill, evidence suggests otherwiseIsrael claimed it did not bomb flour mill, but 500lb explosives find proves otherwise.
The flour mill is the only one in Gaza, and the Goldstone Report, commissioned by the United Nations, said its destruction "was carried out for the purpose of denying sustenance to the civilian population".

Doubts have been cast on the Israeli rebuttal of the Goldstone Report, after it emerged last night that a bomb was defused last year at a Gaza flour mill that Israel had officially said did not come under air attack in the war.

The presence of a large part of the fractured Mark 82 bomb was reported to a de-mining team in late January 2009, and technicians were dispatched to defuse the 500lb device on 11 February.

Click here to read complete article by Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem, The Independent, 2nd February 2010


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