IDF: Malfunction possible cause of Gaza incident
Army investigating deadly Beit Hanoun shelling incident; ‘one possibility is that there was a malfunction in one of our targeting devices,’ Southern Command Chief Yoav Galant says
Hanan Greenberg
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Southern Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant told reporters that, “one possibility is that there was a malfunction in one of our targeting devices.”