The AP buried the information after the fifth paragraph, where it would not get picked up by tomorrow’s World News sections in your local newspaper, but they have independent confirmation that Hamas terrorists were firing from the UN school that got hit by Israeli tank fire yesterday.
Israel’s military said its shelling at the school – the deadliest single episode since Israeli ground forces invaded Gaza on Saturday after a week of air bombardment – was a response to mortar fire from within the school and said Hamas militants were using civilians as cover.
Two residents of the area who spoke with The Associated Press by telephone said they saw a small group of militants firing mortar rounds from a street near the school, where 350 people had gathered to get away from the shelling. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
And then, buried waaay down in the article, is this information. The AP obviously felt this wasn’t important, what with it actually being information that proves Israel didn’t fire at civilians indiscriminately.
An Israeli military statement said it received intelligence that the dead at the girls school included Hamas operatives, among them members of a rocket-launching squad. It identified two of them as Imad Abu Askar and Hassan Abu Askar.
Two residents who spoke to an AP reporter by phone said the two brothers were known to be low-level Hamas militants. They said a group of militants – one of them said four – were firing mortar shells from near the school.
An Israeli shell targeted the men, but missed and they fled, the witnesses said. Then another three shells landed nearby, exploding among civilians, they said, refusing to allow their names to be published because they feared for their safety.
But of course they bury this information. Because it proves that Hamas is committing war crimes—and that just doesn’t fit the anti-Israel narrative.
Of course, you won’t find this on CNN. That is, you have no independent confirmation. Just a story that manages to make you think that the IDF is lying when it says they were targeting terrorists.
And the anti-Israel narrative continues.
Notice how they try to minimize and spin it, though? Just a ‘small’ group of men, firing one itty bitty mortar, and after all, when they were “targeted by an Israeli shell” (how does a shell target anything?), they ran away, AND THEN: The evil Israeli’s just kept shooting at the civilians!!!
Remember the good old days when War Correspondents were Veterans and actually understood war? I’ve seen so many sloppy captions, headlines, etc, in the past decade, such as one showing “Israeli soldiers ‘taking cover’ while firing artillery.” Actually, they were doing what every artilleryman does. They were standing there watching it.
And of course, they use the “anonymous source” so they don’t actually have to prove anything, nor do they provide any evidence. And the obligatory photos of Pali’s running around screaming while carrying the injured in their arms looking for – what? Ambulances or photographers?
Robert