Sunday, January 01, 2006

According to the Jerusalem Post:

Two Palestinians were killed and three wounded late Saturday in an IAF air strike in the northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said, the first fatal attack in the border area since Israel declared it a "no-go" zone.

The IDF said the terrorists were spotted preparing to fire a rocket from the area of Elei Sinai, one of the 21 settlements evacuated during the pullout from Gaza.

According to WAFA, the Palestine News Agency:

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed Saturday night two citizens in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahia, medical sources said.

The sources reported that two citizens were killed by Israeli artillery which bombarded the al-Manshiya neighborhood in the city.


Pinpoint attack on two terrorists, or random bombardment of a residential neighbohood? Here's a map of Gaza showing the difference between Elei Sinai and Beith Lahia.

I like the ABC News headline - 2 Palestinians Slain in Israeli Airstrike. Isn't the word "slain" usually used for homicide and senseless killing? I guess I know who they believe. I also like the way the lead paragraph of their Associated Press story is written:

Two Palestinians were killed in Israel's first deadly airstrike in a Gaza border area it recently put off-limits, just as a truce that has drastically reduced violence between the two sides formally ended.

No mention of what the two Palestinians may have been doing (until later in the article) and obviously suggesting that Israel took advantage of the ending of a "truce" to kill people as soon as possible, even though Israel was never party to the "truce". This isn't just misleading reporting, but false.

There's more rich bull**** from the Palestinian Interior Ministry which claims that, "a shell hit a Palestinian post, hindering police efforts to stop militants from firing a rocket at Israel."

I wonder which of these lies the Palestinian Human Rights organizations will use on their websites denouncing Israel.

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