Posted on 09/03/2006 1:17:52 PM PDT by LC HOGHEAD
Palestinian Terrorists Fire on Children, AP Obfuscates
This is a great example of how appallingly corrupt the wire services have become in their reporting from Palestinian areas, relying on Palestinian journalists and editors who are doing the bidding of terrorist groups and covering up atrocities.
Associated Press writer Ali Daraghmeh’s story is about a gang of masked terrorists who fired on a crowd of schoolchildren to enforce a “teacher’s strike,” wounding a 12-year old boy.
Think about that. They used live fire against a crowd of children.
But the Associated Press headline for the story is deliberately worded to be as innocuous and misleading—in fact, downright confusing—as possible: Palestinian teachers’ strike hurts boy.
NABLUS, West Bank - Masked militants trying to keep students away from school during a politically charged Palestinian teachers’ strike on Sunday shot and wounded a 12-year-old boy.
Palestinian teachers began striking Saturday, the start of the school year, to demand full back pay and regular salaries from the Hamas-led government, which has been financially crippled by six months of international sanctions. Most schools throughout the West Bank remained closed, some by force, as the strike continued.
At least three masked militants stood outside a school in the northern West Bank city of Nablus and fired in the air to keep children away, witnesses said.
Stray fire hit a 12-year-old boy, Issam Ghannam, in the abdomen, witnesses said. ...
The child’s family, Fatah loyalists, refused to condemn the militants. “There were unknown men with weapons, preventing the students from going to school,” said the boy’s uncle, Ghannam Ibrahim Ghannam. “They fired, and as an unintentional result of the shooting he was hit.”
Note that we have only the word of Palestinian journalists that the masked thugs “fired in the air.”
Link or this story dies!
When a bullet leaves a gun, more than likely the bullet is 'in the air."
(Vanity) is generally accepted. The quotes from the 'victim's' uncle made me sick in an earlier post...
How about crediting LGF where you lifted this from?
More "masked gunmen"? Why be masked since Hamas has the govt? Quit hiding behind masks you bloody cowards.
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