The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117493   Message #2540351
Posted By: beardedbruce
15-Jan-09 - 10:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Israel Moves in.
Subject: RE: BS: Israel Moves in.
Actually...


"Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the military fired artillery shells at the U.N. compound after Hamas militants opened fire from the location. Three people were wounded.

"It is absolutely true that we were attacked from that place, but the consequences are very sad and we apologize for it," he said. "I don't think it should have happened and I'm very sorry."

A senior Israeli military officer had also said Israeli troops shelled the compound after coming under fire from Palestinian militants there — an account dismissed by a U.N. official there at the time as "nonsense.""