This is what you really need to know about the gaza situation. Error (Huffington Post UK, Paul Vale, 7/1/14): The deaths [of the three Israeli teens] let to a night of bombing by the Israeli Air Force, after Netanyahu promised Hamas would pay for the killings. Correction (7/2/14): The Israeli Air Force has continued with airstrikes targeting the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, in retaliation for militant rocket attacks launched against Jewish communities in southern Israel over the past two days. Error (Huffington Post UK, headline, 7/1/14): Murdered Israeli Teens Given Joint Funeral As Aistrikes Against West Bank Continue Correction (7/2/14): Murdered Israeli Teens Given Joint Funeral As Airstrikes Against Gaza Continue Error (Haaretz, blog live update, 6/22/14): A Palestinian armed with a grenade was apprehended by security forces near the settlement of Sde Avraham. Correction (6/22/14): A Palestinian armed with a grenade was apprehended by security forces near Sde Avraham, an Israeli community near the Gaza Strip. Error (New York Times, Jodi Rudoren, 12/9/13): Separately, Israel on Sunday blocked the installation of a high-tech cargo scanner donated by the Netherlands at the commercial crossing from Gaza into Israel, citing security concerns. The scanner was intended to increase Gaza exports to the West Bank. Correction (Online as of 12/15/13): Earlier versions of this article incorrectly stated that Israel had blocked the installation of a high-tech cargo scanner donated by the Netherlands at the commercial crossing between Gaza and Israel. The scanner was installed several weeks ago and is being used on agricultural goods bound for Europe, but Israel has prevented its use for exports to Israel and the West Bank. Error (Haaretz, Gili Cohen, 9/23/13): For the first time in six years, construction materials like cement and steel were allowed in Gaza yesterday. Correction (10/18/13): An article by Gili Cohen in Haaretz English Edition (Cement enters Gaza Strip legally for first time in six years, September 23) incorrectly asserted that Israel has barred the import of cement and steel to the Gaza Strip since 2007. The report should have stated that Israel has further eased restriction on the import of these materials to the Gaza Strip. Error (Haaretz, Op-Ed, Gideon Levy, 3/31/13): Amnesty International, for instance, enumerated only 92 Palestinian fighters among the dead [in Operation Cast Lead.] Correction (4/4/13): An article by Gideon Levy (Deadly turning point, Haaretz, March 31) incorrectly quoted a Amnesty International report as saying that 92 Palestinian fighters were killed during Operation Cast Lead. This figure does not appear in the report. Error (USA Today, Michele Chabin and Vanessa OBrien, 3/20/13): Palestinians here said Obama should focus on the Israeli checkpoints and a cement security barrier that has prevented Palestinian terrorists from blowing up buses in Israel, but bar all but a few thousand Palestinians from accessing jobs, universities and hospitals in Israel. Correction (3/25/13): A story on Palestinians in the West Bank on March 20 should have made clear that the number of Palestinians who work in Israel annually exceeds 30,000, and the number who receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals surpassed 200,000 in 2012, according to Israels Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Error (Haaretz, Chaim Levinson and Jack Khoury, 1/16/13): The incidents came a day after Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man in the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya near the border with Israel. Gazan officials said Mustafa Abu Jarad, 21, was a farmer. He was taken to Shifa hospital, where doctors said he died from his wounds. Correction (Online as of 1/24/13): The incidents came a day after Palestinian sources said that Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man in the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya near the border with Israel. Gazan officials said Mustafa Abu Jarad, 21, was a farmer. He was taken to Shifa hospital, where doctors said he died from his wounds. The IDF denied involvement in the incident. Error (Haaretz, Chaim Levinson and Jack Khoury, 1/16/13): The incidents came a day after Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man in the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya near the border with Israel. Gazan officials said Mustafa Abu Jarad, 21, was a farmer. He was taken to Shifa hospital, where doctors said he died from his wounds. Correction (2/7/13): In the article IDF kills fourth Palestinian in a week, by Jack Khoury and Chaim Levinson, published on January 16, the reported shooting death of a Palestinian man by Israeli forces should have been attributed to Palestinian sources. It should also have been noted that the IDF denied involvement in the incident. Error (Christian Science Monitor Jerome Slater Op-Ed, 1/7/13): Ban lifted: A truck loaded with building materials drives at the Rafah crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip Dec. 30. Israel had banned construction materials for Gaza after Hamas seized control there in 2007. As part of a November ceasefire agreement with Hamas, Israel has partially lifted its blockade of the Gaza Strip, at least allowing construction materials into the region pummeled by Israeli airstrikes. Its a single, forward step that ends a five-year ban on such materials. Among other measures, it has refused to allow Gaza a functioning airport, seaport, or commercial crossing on its border with Egypt, radically cutting Gazan trade and commerce with the outside world. Correction (1/10/13): Ban lifted: A truck loaded with building materials drives at the Rafah crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip Dec. 30. Israel had banned construction materials for Gazas private sector after Hamas seized control there in 2007. As part of a November ceasefire agreement with Hamas, Israel has partially lifted its blockade of the Gaza Strip, allowing private construction materials into the region pummeled by Israeli airstrikes. Its a single, forward step that ends a five-year ban on such materials. Among other measures, it has refused to allow Gaza a functioning airport or seaport, radically cutting Gazan trade and commerce with the outside world. [An earlier version of this paragraph was incorrect. See editors note at the bottom of this article. Editors note: An earlier version of this article, based on reporting from the Associated Press, incorrectly described Israels lifting of a 2007 ban on construction materials into Gaza. AP has issued a correction saying that the ban applied to materials for Gazas private sector. Since the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, Israel has allowed humanitarian-related construction materials and materials under UN auspices. Lifting the ban allows private business to ship materials to Gaza. Also, an earlier version incorrectly described Israeli embargo efforts at the Gaza-Egypt border. Israel does not control that border. Error (Washington Post, Abigail Hauslohner, 1/6/13): . . . last Sunday, Israel allowed a cargo of building materials to enter Gaza for the first time in years. Correction (1/9/13): A Jan. 6 A-section article about children growing up in the Gaza Strip incorrectly said that Israel recently allowed building materials to enter Gaza for the first time in years. The materials were the first for the private sector in five years; Israel had previously allowed the entry of some construction materials for Israeli-approved projects carried out by international aid organizations. Error (Washington Post, Joel Greenberg, 1/5/13): The Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held a mass rally in Gaza on Friday to mark the 48thanniversary of its founding …. Correction (1/8/13): A Jan. 5 A-section article about a mass rally in the Gaza Strip incorrectly said that it marked the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Palestinian political party Fatah. The rally commemorated the 48th anniversary of Fatahs first armed mission against Israel. Error (NPR, All Things Considered, Audie Cornish, 1/1/13): For the first time in five years, Israel is allowing shipments of gravel, cement, and other construction materials into Gaza. Correction (1/8/13): First, we want to expand on and clarify a story that aired on New Years Day. It was about Israels decision to ease restrictions on the shipment of construction materials to Gaza. Our story failed to note that Israel previously allowed aid organizations to ship construction material into Gaza. The eased rules apply to private sector builders. Error (NPR, All Things Considered, Audie Cornish, 1/1/13): For the first time in five years, Israel is allowing shipments of gravel, cement and other construction materials into Gaza. Correction (1/7/13, online transcript only): POST-BROADCAST CLARIFICATION: Previously, aid organizations had been allowed to import construction material into Gaza. The eased rules apply to private-sector builders. Error (Guardian, Harriet Sherwood, 12/28/12): Meanwhile, Israel is to allow construction materials to enter Gaza from next week for the first time since 2007. Despite easing its blockade of the enclave two and a half years ago, it has continued to ban the import of almost all construction materials, such as cement and steel, saying they could be used for military purposes. Correction (Online as of 1/7/13): This article was amended on 7 January 2013. The original said that “Israel is to allow construction materials to enter Gaza from next week for the first time since 2007. To clarify: limited quantities of building materials, for UN sponsored projects, were allowed to enter Gaza during that time, as was made clear in the next sentence. Error (Los Angeles Times, wires, news brief, 12/31/12): In a major concession to the Gaza Strips Hamas leaders, Israel dropped its 5-year-old ban on construction materials crossing into the territory . . . Correction (1/4/13): A brief article in the Jan. 1 Section A said that Israel had dropped a 5-year-old ban on construction materials crossing into the Gaza Strip. That ban applied to the private sector; Israel had allowed some construction goods into Gaza for humanitarian projects during that time. Error (AP, Aron Heller and Ibrahim Barzak, 12/31/12): In a major concession to Gazas Hamas leaders Monday, Israel dropped its five-year ban on construction materials crossing into the territory and raised hopes there that rebuilding could begin following a damaging eight-day Israeli air campaign. Correction (1/1/13): In a story Dec. 31, The Associated Press reported that Israel dropped a 5 1/2-year-old ban that prevented construction materials from entering the Gaza Strip. The story should have made clear that the ban applied to Gazas private sector. Under the closure, imposed following the Hamas militant groups takeover of Gaza in June 2007, Israel allowed small amounts of construction goods into Gaza for humanitarian projects. In 2010 it began allowing such materials for projects under the auspices of the United Nations. Mondays announcement by Israel, part of a cease-fire deal reached with Hamas in November, further eases the ban by allowing private businesses to ship in building materials. Error (International Herald Tribune, headline, 12/31/12): Israel allows building materials into Gaza for first time in 5 years Correction (1/3/13): The headline accompanying an article Monday about Israels decision to allow building materials into Gaza said incorrectly that recent shipments were the first in five years. They were the first for use by the private sector in that period; Israel had strictly controlled the entry of building materials, limiting them in recent years to internationally supervised projects. Error (Haaretz, Anshel Pfeffer, 11/23/12): . . . Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil, during his visit on Friday to Gaza, posed for a joint photograph with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, holding together the body of a dead baby boy killed in an Israeli air strike. Correction (Online as of 11/28/12): . . . Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil, during his visit on Friday to Gaza, posed for a joint photograph with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, holding together the body of a dead baby boy, the circumstances of whose death are the subject of much debate, with evidence emerging that he was not killed in an Israeli air strike, as the Palestinians claim, but by an errant missile fired from inside Gaza. Error (Los Angeles Times, Edmund Sanders, 11/20/12): On Monday, Israel attacked the Sharouk communications building in Gaza City where it said four senior members of the Islamic Jihad militant group were meeting. Among the dead was Ramez Harb, a Palestinian journalist. Israel said he was a legitimate target because he served in the information department of Islamic Jihad. Correction (11/23/12): Gaza fighting: In the Nov. 20 Section A, an article about attacks by Israel and Hamas referred to Ramez Harb, who was killed in an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip, as a journalist. Although initial reports said Harb worked for a Palestinian news agency, he was a member of the militant group Islamic Jihad. Error (El Pais, Ignacio Cembrero and Ramon Besa, 9/28/12): Shalit, who wanted to do military service in a combat unit, was captured by Hamas in 2006, and spent five years in captivity until he was exchanged in 2011 for 477 Palestinian prisoners. Correction (9/29/12): Corporal Gilad Shalit was not involved in any killing in Gaza, in contrast to what was stated in the subheading of a September 26 Sports section article regarding his attendance at a Barca-Real Madrid [football match] on October 7, at Camp Nou. Shalit was apprehended by Hamas on the Gaza border in 2006 and was held captive for five years until he was exchanged for 1027 Palestinian prisoners, not 477 as stated on Wednesday and yesterday. Error (El Pais, Ignacio Cembrero and Ramon Besa, 9/26/12): . . . Shalit wasnt liberated until October 2011 in exhange for Israels release of 477 Palestinian prisoners, many of them in administrative detention without trial Correction (9/29/12): Corporal Gilad Shalit was not involved in any killing in Gaza, in contrast to what was stated in the subheading of a September 26 Sports section article regarding his attendance at a Barca-Real Madrid [football match] on October 7, at Camp Nou. Shalit was apprehended by Hamas on the Gaza border in 2006 and was held captive for five years until he was exchanged for 1027 Palestinian prisoners, not 477 as stated on Wednesday and yesterday Error (El Pais, sub-headline, 9/26/12): Controversy over the alleged invitation by Barca [Football Club] to an Israeli soldier, involved in a Gaza massacre, to attend the Camp Nou classic Oct. 7 against Madrid. Correction (9/29/12): Corporal Gilad Shalit was not involved in any killing in Gaza, in contrast to what was stated in the subheading of a September 26 Sports section article regarding his attendance at a Barca-Real Madrid [football match] on October 7, at Camp Nou. Shalit was apprehended by Hamas on the Gaza border in 2006 and was held captive for five years until he was exchanged for 1027 Palestinian prisoners, not 477 as stated on Wednesday and yesterday. Error (ABC News Web site, Abby D. Phillip, 10/22/12): Obamas relationship with Netanyahu has been rocked by several public strains in the past four years, including disagreements about Israels expansion of settlements in the Gaza Strip. Correction (Posted as of 11/4/12): Obamas relationship with Netanyahu has been rocked by several public strains in the past four years, including disagreements about Israels expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Error (Guardian, Sarah Irving, travel piece, 11/18/11): Israeli border authorities control all routes into the West Bank and Gaza. Correction (12/15/11): Granted, tourism to Palestine still faces many challenges, not least the Israeli border authorities who control all routes into the West Bank. . . . This article was amended on 15 December 2011. The original said the Israeli border authorities controlled all routes into the West Bank and Gaza. This has been corrected. Error (Washington Post, Map by Laris Karklis, 12/4/11): Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but still controls all border crossings, the waters off its coast and its airspace. Correction (12/7/11): Text on a map with a Dec. 4 Page One article about Israels use of drone aircraft incorrectly said that Israel controls all border crossings with Gaza. It controls the crossings between Gaza and Israel but not the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt. Error (Los Angeles Times, Christopher Hawthorne, 2/2/11): Decolonizing Architecture is driven by a simple but provocative question: If and when Israel decides, or is compelled, to leave the occupied territories in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, what should returning Palestinians do with the buildings, roads and bridges the army and the settlers leave behind? Correction (2/4/2011): Decolonizing Architecture: A review of the exhibition Decolonizing Architectue in the Feb. 2 Calendar section implied that Israel continues to occupy the Gaza Strip. In fact, Israeli forces pulled out of the area in 2005. Error (Philadelphia Inquirer headline, 1/11/11): Rockets Strike Gaza Town Correction (1/12/11): A headline Tuesday on a story about Israeli-Palestinian tensions misidentified the target of rocket attacks that took place Monday. The rockets were fired from Gaza and struck the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Error (AFP, 1/6/11): Mahmud Zahar made the remarks during a memorial ceremony for 43 Palestinians who were killed at a UN school in the Jabaliya refugee camp during Israels 22-day war on Gaza that began in December 2008. . . Zahar was speaking on the second anniversary of an Israeli air strike on the United Nations Al-Fakhura school in the northern Gaza Strip. . . . Before an auidence that included members of the Hamas leadership in Gaza, Zahar paid tribute to those who died in the school where they had taken refuge from the heavy fighting. Correction (1/11/11): ATTENTION - CORRECTION: In Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza-Holocaust-Jews moved Jan. 6, please read in paras 2,4 and 6 xxx near a UN school xxx sted at as sent. Herewith a corrected repeat:/// Mahmud Zahar made the remarks during a memorial ceremony for 43 Palestinians who were killed near a UN school in the Jabaliya refugee camp during Israels 22-day war on Gaza that began in December 2008. . . . Zahar was speaking on the second anniversary of an Israeli air strike near the United Nations Al-Fakhura school in the northern Gaza Strip. . . . Before an audience that included members of the Hamas leadership in Gaza, Zahar paid tribute to those who died near the school where they had taken refuge from the heavy fighting. CAMERA: Furthermore, the figure of 43& casualties from the Al-Fakhura Street incident is heavily disputed, and has not been proven. The Goldstone Report (hardly friendly towards Israel), acknowledged that it did not have definitive information on the number of casualties, but cited far fewer than 43. Paragraph 661 says that the reported three shells which hit al-Fakhura Street killed at least 24 people. The witnesses estimate that up to another 40 were injured by the blasts. The Mission has not been able to verify those figures, but having inspected the site and viewed the footage, it does not consider these numbers to be exaggerated. (Emphasis added.) The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), in its list of casualties from the winter fighting, only identifies 18 Palestinians who were killed opposite or near the Al-Fakhura school on Jan. 6. The Israeli military, in an investigation of the incident, found that 12 to 17 people were killed in the strike, including several fighters (Jerusalem Post, April 24, 2009). In addition, the tendentious language ought to have been corrected. Israel did not launch a war on Gaza, as witnessed by the tons of aid that Israel transferred to the Gaza Strip during the fighting. Rather, Israel launched a war on Hamas. Error (Haaretz, headline, 11/1/2010): Report: Hamas admits for first time losing 200-300 men in Gaza war Correction (Updated headline): Report: Hamas admits for first time losing more than 600 men in Gaza war Error (International HeraldTribune, Neil MacFarquhar, 9/16/09): The [Goldstone] report did not take a position on the hotly contested number of civilian casualties during the Gaza war. It noted that they range from the Israeli government figure of 1,166 to the Hamas figure of 1,444, with a couple of humanitarian organizations estimates somewhere between. Correction (9/25/09): An article Sept. 16 on casualties in the Gaza Strip war said 1,116 Palestinian civilians had been killed in the fighting. The figure actually covers the overall number of Palestinian casualties: civilians, combatants and unknowns. The proportion of civilian casualties remains in dispute. CAMERA: In addition, Hamas number of 1,444 relates to the groups claim about the total number of Palestinian casualties in the Gaza fighting, civilians and combatants alike. Error (Charlston Gazette, Op-Ed by Eva Knapp, 4/12/09): A 2008 study by the Red Cross ... shows half of Gazan children under the age of 12 have lost their will to live. ... In 2002, then Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff said, The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people. Correction (7/19/09): An April 12 commentary America must stop blessing killings of Palestinians by Eva Knapp contained an unverified quotation. Moshe Yaalon, a former Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff, was quoted as saying that the Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people. Although cited often, the quote does not appear in the Israeli newspaper interview where it is usually attributed and should not have appeared in the Sunday Gazette-Mail. The same commentary also attributes to an unpublished 2008 Red Cross study the conclusion that half of Gazan children under the age of 12 have lost their will to live. A news account of that study by the Independent includes no such statement. Error (Wall Street Journal, Charles Levinson, 1/12/09): The U.N. resumed aid deliveries in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, two days after it halted them following an incident in which Israeli soldiers fired on U.N. workers in two separate incidents, killing one and injuring two, a spokesman said Correction (1/18/09): Israels military investigated an incident in which a United Nations spokesman alleged Israeli forces fired on a U.N. truck on Jan. 8. Israel said the investigation showed its forces had not fired on the truck. A Jan. 12 World News article citing the U.N. allegation didnt include Israels statement on the event. Error (San Diego Union-Tribune, column by Miko Peled, 1/2/09): The people of Gaza live in a population density of 8,000 people per square mile, the highest in the world Correction (1/15/09): A Jan. 2 Opinion page column by Miko Peled, Recognizing good people in Gaza, incorrectly stated that the population density in Gaza is the highest in the world. In fact, there are several areas with a higher population density, including Singapore and Hong Kong. Error (Los Angeles Times, Richard Boudreaux, 1/28/08): Israel began reducing the flow of electricity . . . across Gazas borders after the militant Islamic movement Hamas, which had won parliamentary elections in 2006, seized full control of the territory in June. Correction (3/25/08): Gaza electricity: A Section A article on Jan. 28 reported that Israel had begun reducing the flow of electricity to the Gaza Strip after the Islamic movement Hamas seized full control of the territory in June. Although Israeli sanctions had caused electricity shortages by curtailing supplies of diesel fuel to Gazas only power plant, Israel did not reduce the amount of electricity it sells to Gaza until early February. Error (Washington Times, Nicholas Kralev, 3/6/08): Mr. [Mahmoud] Abbas suspended talks with Israel over the weekend because of its military offensive against Hamas in Gaza in response to the rocket attacks. More than 120 civilians have died, including women and children Correction (3/7/08): The Washington Times incorrectly reported yesterday the number of Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip. Of more than 120 people killed during Israeli incursions into Gaza, the Israeli military estimates that about 10 percent were civilians. The Israeli human rights group BTselem said earlier this week that about half of the Palestinians killed in Gaza were noncombatants. Error (Boston Globe, Reuters photo caption, 12/13/06): Palestinians displayed an image of the slain sons of an intelligence official at a rally yesterday in Gaza Correction (12/14/06): The placement of a photograph on yesterdays World page of three slain Palestinian children with a story about an Israeli court ruling allowing Palestinians to sue Israels military for damages may have implied that Israelis were responsible for the childrens killings. Palestinian gunmen are suspected of carrying out the killings. Error (International Herald Tribune, Patrick Seale, Op-Ed, 10/28/06): The killing continues on a daily basis – by tank and sniper fire, by air and sea bombardment, and by undercover teams in civilian clothes sent into Arab territory to ambush and murder, an Israeli specialty perfected over the past several decade. . . . Five Israelis have been killed by these [Qassam] rocket attacks in the past six years. Correction (11/08/06): An article on Oct. 28, Israels scandalous siege of Gaza, gave an incorrect number for the Israelis killed by rockets fired from Gaza. The correct number is nine. The article also misstated that Palestinians in Gaza have been bombed and killed on a daily basis since June 25. According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, 347 Palestinians have been killed in that period in the West Bank and Gaza, but the casualties have not occurred on every day. Error (Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed by Henry Siegman, 6/18/06): The death of an entire Palestinian family -- a father and his six children -- on a Gaza beach earlier this month, followed just a few days later by an Israeli missile strike that killed nine more Palestinian civilians, has reopened the controversy .... [S]ince Israels disengagement from Gaza last year ... Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli artillery and airstrikes virtually on a daily basis. Correction (7/17/06): A June 18 article on the Mideast conflict stated that a father and his six children were killed in a June 9 Israeli artillery strike on a Gaza beach. A man, his wife and five children in their family died. The article also said that Palestinian civilians have been killed virtually every day since Israels disengagement from Gaza. Statistics from BTselem, the Israeli human rights group, show that Palestinian civilians have been killed on fewer than half the days since the disengagement last year. Fact: The newspapers correction claims the Palestinians were killed in an Israeli artillery strike on a Gaza beach. But Israel has denied the explosion was caused by an IDF shell, and even Siegman avoided blaming an incoming Israeli shell. The correction also refers to the number of days in which Palestinian civilians have been killed. Siegmans Op-Ed, however, referred more specifically to civilians killed by Israeli artillery or airstrikes, something which has happened on only few of the days since Israels withdrawal from Gaza. Regardless, the corrections claim that Israel has killed Palestinian civilians on fewer than half the days since the disengagement is misleadingly imprecise. Based on Btselem documentation, on fewer than 25 percent of those days were Palestinian civilians killed by Israel. Error (International Herald Tribune, Ian Fisher and Steven Erlanger, 6/29/06): Two Palestinians, aged 2 and 17, were reported killed Wednesday while playing with an unexploded Israeli shell in the southern town of Khan Yunis. Correction (7/12/06): An article June 29 on the deaths of two Palestinians in an explosion in the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis misstated the cause. Palestinians initially blamed an Israeli shell for the blast, but Palestinian security officials and Palestinian journalists later said that the blast appeared to be a Palestinian explosive that went off unintentionally. Error (Guardian, Patrick Seale, 7/3/06): Qassam rockets being fired from Gaza have so far not killed anyone... Correction: (7/7/2006): We said in error in a column that the homemade rockets launched from northern Gaza into Israel had not so far killed anyone (Anything but negotiation, page 29, July 3). In fact 13 deaths have been recorded, according to various sources. Error (AFP, 2/8/06): Closed since September 24 under the complete cutting off of the Palestinian territories by Israel, it [the Karni crossing] was reopened on Sunday. Correction (Updated story, 2/8/06): The crossing had been closed since mid-January after a security alert but it was reopened on Sunday. Error (San Francisco Chronicle, David Biale, 1/29/06): Israel still controls 60 percent of Palestinian land, much of its water sources and all of its borders. Correction (2/5/06): In last Sundays Insight, the story Barbarians at the gate, or just prgmatists? misstated the extent of Israels administration of Gazas borders. Israel controls all of the borders except Gazas border with Egypt, which is controlled by the Palestinians. Error (Boston Herald, Marie Szaniszlo, 12/25/05): After 38 years of occupying the Gaza Strip, Israel pulled out, evacuating some 8,000 Israeli settlers and destroying their homes so that Palestinians could not use them. Correction (1/15/06): A year-end review article on Dec. 25 about the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip included an incomplete explanation of why the Israelis tore down the vacated homes left behind by Jewish settlers. Palestinian officials said they wanted the homes to be torn down as unsuitable for their housing needs. Additionally, some Israeli officials were concerned the Palestinian group Hamas would triumphally overrun the empty houses. CAMERA: The Palestinian Authority called for the demolition of the homes so that they could be replaced with high-density apartments for Palestinians. See here for more details. Error (BBC Web site, In pictures caption, 11/26/05): For the first time in nearly 40 years, Palestinians took back control of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. (Emphasis added.) Correction (11/28/05): Palestinians took control of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt for the first time. The crossing is a vital gateway to the outside world for Gazas residents and the strips economy. (Emphasis added.) Error (Boston Globe, Thannassis Cambanis, 12/31/2005): Palestinian firms have risen to the occasion, repairing greenhouses sabotaged by departing settlers and by Palestinian looters. Correction (11/3/2005): Because of a reporting error, a Page One story Monday about greenhouses in former Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip stated that Israeli settlers sabotaged greenhouses before withdrawing from Gaza in August. The article should have said some settlers dismantled their own greenhouses before leaving, and that Palestinians looted some greenhouses after the Israelis withdrew. A Palestinian official, Mahmoud Abu Samra, asserted to the reporter that Israelis had sabotaged some greenhouses, but he did not provide evidence to substantiate the allegation. Error (Reuters, Cynthia Johnston, 10/19/05): In October, the Authority broke ground on a project funded by the United Arab Emirates to build apartment towers for poor or homeless people in the coastal strip, which is the most densely populated place on earth and home to 1.4 million people. Correction (Updated story, 10/23/05): In October, the Authority broke ground on a project funded by the United Arab Emirates to build apartment towers for poor or homeless people in the coastal strip, which is among the most densely populated places on earth and home to 1.4 million people. Error (Washington Post, Abdallah al Salmi, 10/2/05): With 1.3 million Palestinians living in heavily packed refugee camps, subject to IDF jets and militants’ rockets, the 140-square-mile Strip is not a likely setting for a stable and prosperous state. Correction (10/13/05): An Oct. 2 Outlook article by Abdallah al Salmi, describing life in Gaza since the Israeli withdrawal, stated incorrectly that there are 1.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza refugee camps. That figure is the estimated number of Palestinians in Gaza, of which 961,000 are registered as refugees with the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). An estimated 471,000 live in refugee camps, according to UNRWA. Error (Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/12/05): This will restore freedom of movement for Palestinians who have lived hemmed in by fences on three sides and the Mediterranean on the fourth since 1967. Correction (8/20/05): In an Aug. 12 story on the challenges facing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, an incorrect date was given for when the Israelis constructed fences to enclose three sides of Gaza. The fences were constructed in 1994. Error (USA Today, Andrea Stone, 4/19/05): About 8,000 Jewish settlers control 40% of Gaza, a 139-square-mile strip along the Mediterranean Sea that is home to more than 1.3 million Palestinians. Correction (4/25/05): An article in Tuesday’s editions should have explained that estimates vary on the amount of land controlled by Israel and Jewish settlers in Gaza. When roads, Israeli military installations and temporary security zones are included, the estimate is as high as 40%, according to Palestinian academics Mohammed El-Samhouri and Hazim Abu Shanab. Estimates by Israel’s Foreign Ministry and Peace Now don’t include those areas and range from 15%-25%. Error (American Journalism Review, Barbara Matusow, June/July 2004): To understand the particular tensions in Gaza, for example, and why Israel is contemplating a pullout, it’s necessary to know that this tiny strip of land is home to 1.2 million Palestinians, while 7,500 Israeli settlers occupy 25 percent of the land and control most of the water resources. Correction (August/September 2004): In “Caught in the Crossfire” (June/July), Barbara Matusow wrote that Israeli settlers occupy 25 percent of the land in the Gaza Strip and control most of the water resources. According to the Institute of Applied Research in Jerusalem, the Palestinians control 95 percent of the water resources in Gaza. Estimates vary widely when it comes to control of the land, however. A June 2004 report on Gaza by the World Bank states that 15 to 20 percent of the land is occupied by settlements. Error (Washington Post, John Ward Anderson, 7/23/04): A little more than 8,000 settlers occupy approximately 40 percent of the land in the Gaza Strip. . . . Correction (7/28/04): A July 23 article misstated the amount of land in the Gaza Strip occupied by Jewish settlers. Although there is disagreement on the exact amount, estimates range from about 12 percent to about 15 percent. When Israeli military installations, roads and security zones are included, estimates range from about 15 percent to about 38 percent. Error (AP, 2003 photos re-released 6/19/04 with new captions): In Gaza, a fenced-in, poverty stricken territory where only a tiny portion of the 1.3 million residents has a job and where brutal military incursions are a daily fact of life, the militant group Hamas has won wide support for its welfare work, and is asking to have a greater role in running the Gaza Strip once Israel withdraws. Correction (Revised captions in AP Photo Archives, 7/1/04): In Gaza, a fenced-in, poverty stricken territory where only a tiny portion of the 1.3 million residents has a job and where Israeli military incursions are a daily fact of life, the militant group Hamas has won wide support. Hamas is asking to have a greater role in running the Gaza Strip, should Israel withdraw.
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