Posted on 01/20/2009 4:03:04 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
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.
Israel.
The link doesn’t work. I found some of the information elsewhere:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/01/07/20090107mideast0107.html
But this does not matter. The media will keep on with it’s blame israel mentality.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD95HUIG80
==============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, refusing to allow their names to be published because they feared for their safety. Then another three shells landed nearby, exploding among civilians, they said.=============
Here it is again. I guess this is just too much truth for the left wing Guardian’s pages.
==============”Two residents who spoke to an AP reporter by phone said the two brothers were known to be low-level Hamas militants.”
The Hamas supporters in the west will just claim the two residents were actually Israeli agents.
The UN. Does any organization on this planet do more to foster the spread of terrorism?
“The Hamas supporters in the west will just claim the two residents were actually Israeli agents.”
Either that or “freedom fighters” defending against aggression. Maybe they’ll get a mention in the prayer by the Muslim “brotherhood” cleric today.
I wonder if we’ll hear a response from that UN clown that said he was 99.9% sure that Hamas wasn’t firing from the building?
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