The Post's Exaggerations - First Jenin, and now Rafah

On Saturday, May 22, 2004 Robin Shulman of The Post's foreign service reported that according to UN officials 450 people were rendered homeless in the Rafah operation. On Tuesday the 25th in her article "Emerging From Fear To Bury A Son, Family in Rafah Details Killing of 13-Year-Old (5-25-04 A10), Ms. Shulman, relying upon Palestinian sources to inflate the figure to 1,000 people rendered homeless, stated: "Palestinian officials said more than a thousand people have been rendered homeless by Israeli demolitions." Yet as recently as yesterday UNWRA reported only 575 people left homeless. Ms. Shulman must have known the figure she was repeating yesterday from Palestinian sources was an exaggeration. One is left to wonder why her editor wouldn't have caught the inflated figure.