Dog bites man: AP calls an attack an attack

Quick, get this AP article into your caches before the spin doctors catch up with it.

Palestinians Attack Cargo Station
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Palestinian militants attacked the Gaza Strip’s main cargo crossing with mortar fire early Tuesday, lightly wounding an Israeli truck driver in the latest flare-up of violence in the coastal strip.

The attack on the Karni crossing came shortly after warring Palestinian factions resumed their violent infighting following a one-week pause, and gunmen abducted a foreign news photographer.

The Israeli army said the mortar attack hit a truck that was delivering building materials to Gaza. It said the attack did not disrupt the flow of goods into Gaza.

And there’s almost no anti-Israel spin!

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has pledged to increase the movement of goods in and out of Gaza in an effort to boost the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in his power struggle with the Islamic militant group Hamas.

There was no claim of responsibility for the attack. Medical officials said the truck’s driver was lightly wounded and taken to a hospital.

Karni is the main transit point for Gaza’s imports and exports, and is critical to the area’s fragile economy. Traffic through the crossing has been severely restricted during months of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants.

Well, I didn’t say there was none. I said there was almost none.

They also managed to be truthful about the internal war going on.

Internal Palestinian tensions also have erupted into violence over the past month.

Late Monday, clashes in the Jebaliya refugee camp near Gaza City broke a weeklong lull in the confrontation between Hamas, which controls the government, and Abbas’ Fatah. In the past few weeks, 17 people have been killed in the internal fighting, leading to fears of civil war.

At least two people were wounded in the gunfire on Monday, security officials said, and media reports said 18 Hamas gunmen and four from Fatah were kidnapped. Seven of the Hamas militants were later freed. In the past, kidnapped militants have usually been released unharmed.

The armed confrontations escalated as Fatah-Hamas talks on a national unity government broke down in late November. Abbas wants to resume peace talks with Israel, while Hamas rejects the existence of the Jewish state.

Like I said, get this in your cache, fast. I’m sure the editors at AP will decide this is far too negative towards the palestinians and spin it better by the next update.