Beit Hanun Massacre Investigation
The IDF investigation into the Beit Hanun massacre in which 18 civilians were killed in their beds claims to have revealed the root cause of the accident according to Haaretz. But in doing so it raises new questions:
Read full post...A component in the targeting radar of the artillery battery - an electronic card that was replaced five days earlier - turned out to be faulty and fed the battery with incorrect target data.
As a result, even though the battery received the correct target coordinates, in practice, the average distortion in the radar stood at 200 meters.
While the gunners were certain they were shelling a specific location, seven of the 11 shells fired in a salvo landed inside a built-up area, 450 meters south of the original target.






















