There has been growing discussion about a "revenge attack" that Israeli troops committed against Palestinian policemen in February 2002 in response to a successful attack by militants which killed 6 Israeli soldiers.

Breaking the Silence is a website run by those who want to expose details about the "massacre".

The army as well as some of the soldiers involved defend the action.

"Among those targets were checkpoints manned by Palestinian policemen who facilitated the passage and actively assisted the terrorists who passed through this checkpoint to carry out murderous attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers," it said.

All in all not the most brilliant of operations on the face of it. But if no other similar situations come to light, I'll take this for what it is - a one-off exception based on human emotion that happened over 3 years ago. It will be interesting to see what a full-scale investigation brings out.