Goldstone Report finding reversed

Richard Goldstone has come to the conclusion that in the 2008-2009 Gaza conflict it was not Israeli policy to intentionally target civilians, reversing a key finding of his United Nations report. "If I had known then what I know now," he has written in an article in The Washington Post, "the Goldstone Report would have been a different document."

Israel has called for the report, which accused Israel of war crimes, to be withdrawn. "Everything we said has been proven true," said Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. "Israel did not intentionally harm civilians .... The fact that Goldstone backtracked must lead to the shelving of this report once and for all."