Ahh, the joys of covering the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The International Midde East Media Center reported yesterday:
Three Palestinians have been reportedly wounded in southern Gaza after an Israeli shell landed on a local house near the Sofa crossing in eastern Rafah city, media sources said.
Reported the Jerusalem Post yesterday:
A Palestinian boy was seriously injured in the Gaza Strip on Monday after playing with a tank shell. According to Israel Radio, the boy brought the shell into his home in southern Gaza, where he and several other boys played with it.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Rattling The Kettle // Oct 9, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Should be easy enough to verify: is there a hole in the roof?
2 Pappe // Oct 10, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I am sure a hole in the roof can be arranged…
3 anony mouse // Oct 10, 2007 at 6:45 pm
By Israel firing a few more shells at peoples’ houses no doubt.
4 Pappe // Oct 10, 2007 at 8:24 pm
True.
Isn’t that what the Israeli army always does ?
5 Pappe // Oct 10, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Here is how a refugee camp looks after Israeli army shelled it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7037275.stm
6 greenmamba // Oct 10, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Maybe Charles as an objective journalist (put on the appropriate hat Charles) could comment on which source, IMEMC or JP-Israel Radio, is most likely to be accurate and why.
7 Media Watcher // Oct 11, 2007 at 6:15 am
IMEMC is a “news agency” which was founded by the same people who founded the ISM advocacy organization - they create “media events” to show “Israel bad - Palestinian Good”.
JP is a pro-Israel biased news paper. While op-eds are clearly biased it tries to keep things accurate (at least in news reporting) it is not considered a highly reliable source – but when they make an error they try to correct.
Israel Radio, including surprisingly Israeli army Radio are part of the vibrant Israeli media that is not afraid publishing facts (as long as they are indeed facts) which are at times damaging to Israel. In fact 90% of what one see on Int’l press about Israel comes from translation of Israeli press (albeit selective translation – the int’l press does not pick the parts which are pro-Israel just the ones that are anti- Israel)
To some it up: ISM make lies, manufacture events – all in the name of creating good PR for their cause.
From all those 3 they are the least realizable while Israeli radio is the most reliable.
JP – somewhere in the middle.
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