This editorial describes Israel's situation pretty well, I'm afraid. (But the Palestinian situation with less empathy: harm to civilians may literally have been "minimal", but that's a sizeable minimum.)
I think that the relief workers who are collecting bodies (and I thought it was only the Red Cross, escorted by the IDF at all times) have only been allowed into very limited parts of the camp so far, because the IDF is saying that most areas are still too dangerous. The claims that 500 or more people were massacred generally say that the bodies are buried under the bulldozed houses, and especially that the IDF used the bulldozers to make mass graves. To investigate such claims the relief workers would need far more freedom than they are currently getting
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Date: 2002-04-16 09:39 am (UTC)