Not so much a conspiracy, more a cover-up. Which is pretty common in situations like this. The only thing that is absolutely certain is that some people are lying.

"I've certainly seen scenes of where the fighting has taken place." "has taken place" - past tense

Pictures of scenes of "where fighting has taken place" and where buildings have been demolished does nothing to reveal whether the stories that have been appearing in our papers are true or not. Stories about field executions, about Israeli soldiers using civilian prisoners as human shields, and about houses being bulldozed with families inside them, without giving them a chance to come out.

Someone is undoubtedly lying. Maybe it is the people who say they saw those things happening. Maybe it is the people who deny that they happened.

If the reporters had not been kept out until after the fighting and the bulldozing and all that was finished with, there would have been a lot more evidence to help determine the truth.