Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Tuesday, 6th January 2009

Human shields killed? Let's blame Israel

11:18pm

As soon as it was reported earlier today that around 40 Gazans (later reduced to 30) had been killed when the Israelis fired on an UNRWA school in Gaza, the usual suspects could scarcely conceal their joy. At last! An Israeli massacre. The BBC straightaway parroted the Hamas/UN line – that hapless Gazan ‘refugees’ had taken shelter from the bombs in the school, only to be struck by Israeli missiles which had scored a direct hit on the school. But according to the Israelis, something rather different had happened. Palestinians had fired mortar bombs from the school grounds at the Israeli forces; the troops had returned fire – and had ignited booby-trapped bombs at the school, causing the horrific casualties.
As the Jerusalem Post reported: 

According to the IDF, among the dead were members of a Hamas launching cell,
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The Hamas Broadcasting Corporation (ctd)

1:33pm


Last night’s BBC TV News at Ten featured a highly partisan report about Gaza by Jeremy Bowen. Making no mention of the direct hit yesterday by a Hamas rocket on a kindergarten in Ashdod (which was empty for fear of precisely such an occurrence) Bowen concentrated heavily on the growing civilian casualty toll among Palestinians, making no acknowledgement of any Hamas operatives among these figures. The piece de resistance of this item was a report from Gaza’s Shifa hospital by a Gazan BBC producer, Rushdi abu Alouf. He claimed that ‘hundreds of kids, women and children’ had been brought to the hospital for medical treatment. Undoubtedly there are many casualties -- tragically, including children -- and the hospital is obviously under pressure. This though may help explain some of that pressure:

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