According to a (German) article on n-tv.de the German air force flew an attack on Taliban forces:
Nach Bundeswehrangaben wurden bei dem vom deutschen ISAF-Kommandeur in Kundus angeforderten Angriff mehr als 50 Aufständische getötet. "Unbeteiligte sind nach derzeitigem Kenntnisstand nicht zu Schaden gekommen." Der Schutz von Zivilisten habe für die Bundeswehr bei Militäroperationen oberste Priorität. Berichte afghanischer Behörden über zivile Opfer könnten derzeit nicht bestätigt werden. Die Untersuchungen dauerten an.
Translation (from Google and then cleaned up by myself):
According to army figures more than 50 insurgents were killed in a German attack requested by the ISAF commander in Kunduz. "Innocent bystanders did not at the present time come to harm." The protection of civilians is a top priority for the Bundeswehr in military operations. Reports of Afghan authorities about civilian casualties could not presently be confirmed. The investigations continued.
Now, I am myself convinced that the attack was totally justified and required and that the German air force took every precaution to avoid civilian casualties short of not flying and sending infantry with bulldozers instead like the Israelis would in such a situation.
But can you imagine what the world would have said it if had been the Israeli air force that killed 50 terrorists somewhere in the West-Bank?
According to Wikipedia the war in Afghanistan has cost over 40,000 lives over 8 years: 6600 allied (NATO and allied Afghani forces), over 25,000 (!) Taliban and Al-Qaeda, and about 11,000 civilians.
Israel's attack on Gaza cost 1300 lives, mostly terrorists, and was the only major attack in that war for years.
Yet Israel is made out to be the monster and the sitiation is discussed at the highest levels of the UN and Israel's enemies are propped up again with 4 billion dollars, most of it coming from the US and Europe.
The Taliban have little outside help.
The German air force does not have a list of names of who it was they killed. But the world expected such a list from Israel (and got it).
If anybody now proposed that Germany kills Afghanis to steal their organs, he would rightly be accused of being a complete fool; despite the fact that Germany did help Saddam Hussein produce poison gas then used against the Kurds.
Israel has no such recent history as Germany with the killing of civilians or aiding such, yet a story accusing Israel (and New York Jews) of such organ theft is now widely accepted as possibly true, even in western countries.
Does anybody still believe that those protesting against Israel are not anti-Semites?
Or is it merely coincidence that of all the wars in the world, and there are enough, they chose the one with the the fewest victims and the most complete data about who died to protest the reckless brutality of not both but naturally only one side?
Die Vereinten Nationen verlangten von der NATO eine eingehende Untersuchung des Angriffs. Es müsse geklärt werden, warum ein Luftangriff angeordnet worden sei, obwohl die Situation vor Ort unübersichtlich gewesen sei, sagte der stellvertretende UN-Gesandte für Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith. Er kündigte zudem an, dass auch die UN-Mission in Afghanistan ermitteln werde.
Translated:
The United Nations demanded from NATO a thorough investigation of the attack. It should be clarified why an air raid had been ordered when the situation on the ground had been confusing, said the deputy UN envoy for Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith. He also announced that the UN mission in Afghanistan will investigate.
Better find out why your schools in Gaza teach complete nonsense to Arab children and why terrorists fire from your schools and hide in your hospitals before you criticise Germany and NATO, you morons!
As long as the UN are the worst when it comes to ignoring and violating human rights, their institutions really shoudn't criticise anyone.
Did you find out why UN troops failed to protect Bosnian Muslims from the Serbs in the 90s and how it happened that Saddam exported oil and bribed UN officials at the same time?
If not, go sweep in front of your own door before you sweep in front of someone else's.
Or heck, go and abolish Switzerland like the elected leader of the UN assembly proposes. That would be interesting.