Will the media and the governement of Israel apologize for speading the lie that protesters poured acid on police?

On Friday morning, August 19th, 2005, Deputy director of Beersheba’s Sorocca hospital, who treated the 75 policemen, appeared on the Voice of Israel radio program to say that he had seen no acid burns or any other marks of violence during their eviction of residents from Kfar Darom and eleven other Jewish communities on the previous two days.

Some showed slight irritation around the eyes, possibly from turpentine solution.

Later that day, MK Michael Eytan, chairman of the Knesset law committee, published a press release in which he denounced “the acid lie”, and described it as “a blood libel” propagated by the government of Israel.

The question remains: Will the media outlets that made reference to the alleged “acid attack” now correct themselves… and will the spokespeople of the government of Israel apologize?