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We Must Believe Media. Right?

If we are to believe the media in this Gaza offensive by Isreal, then there is a vast majority of children killed in this battle. How?

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Israeli left-wing activists protest against the ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza has now killed more than 1,000 people, as hopes were raised that Hamas may accept a ceasefire to end the offensive in the Palestinian territory. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)



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An explosion is seen where the Israeli military is bombing an area around alleged smuggling tunnels in Rafah southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Israel showed no signs of slowing its bruising 19-day offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers, striking some 60 targets on Wednesday. Israel launched the onslaught on Dec. 27, seeking to punish the Hamas militant group for years of rocket attacks on southern Israel. The offensive has killed more than 940 Palestinians, half of them civilians, according to Palestinian hospital official. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)


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A Palestinian child wounded in the Israeli offensive arrives at the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The UN Children's Fund has warned that children caught up in the Israeli offensive in Gaza are bearing the brunt of the crisis, with over 300 killed since December 27. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)


So, if we are to believe CR(ap), then 1,000 "palestinians" have been killed in Israel's offensive onslaught of the innocents. Half of those deaths have been "civilian" with over 300 being children.

THAT MEANS THAT OVER 2/3 OF THE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES ARE CHILDREN??!?!

Does that sound right to you? I know that there is a larger than average number of kids in this region due to the willingness of young adults to kill themselves off, but, you would think that the kids, and especially their parents would take them AWAY from the war zone. Right? riiiight??

Ok, granted in a normal society they would. But still. Think about this some more. You have 500 terrorists killed, over 300 kids, and only 200 civilian adults (according to the media) that were in an active war zone and ended up dead. In other words, there were almost as many children as terrorists killed while Israel was taking out terrorist targets.

Now, shouldn't these numbers be raising questions by the media as well?

Meanwhile, Hizballah continues to fire their rockets in to Israel and the U.N. terrorist-keepers have even found rockets prepared to launch as well. So, who wants peace?
 

2.. 4.. 6.. 8

It's amazing how the number of the "martyred" in any given Israeli "attack" tends to swell upon each retelling. For example, here's what the Associated Press reported earlier today:

Palestinian relatives chants slogans after they saw the bodies of six Hamas militants in the morgue of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008. Israeli aircraft killed six people in an airstrike on a Hamas police station on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)


Not to be left out of the latest Jihadi du jour, Reuters was on the scene as well. Their report, however, is slightly different than the AP's telling of the story:

A Palestinian man reacts after hearing that eight Hamas militants were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip February 5, 2008. Israeli forces killed at least eight Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bombing in Israel claimed by the Islamist group. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)


All this aside, it is pretty clear (WARNING: Morgue shots) exactly how many Hamas militants were killed in this strike, which makes Reuters' exaggeration of the story somewhat befuddling.

Aha, that's what it is—Reuters is grouping two additional jihadis in their body count, but attaching it to an irrelevant photograph. The people in the picture above (notice that the same man is present in the two main photos presented here) weren't necessarily being "told" that "up to eight" Hamasiacs had been killed, but rather had just gotten out from seeing the six present.

Reuters is still wrong, by the way. Only six were killed in an airstrike. The other two, as the AP correctly points out, were killed in "clashes with troops."

Two huzzahs for that vaunted fact-checking.
 

A Simple Explanation

Here's how people get hurt in the "occupied" Palestinian territories:

A member of the Fatah force takes up position with a rocket propelled grenade during clashes with Hamas militants at Rafah camp in the southern Gaza Strip June 7, 2007. Rival Hamas and Fatah forces clashed in the Gaza Strip, killing at least one person and injuring 12 others, in the worst flare-up of factional fighting in almost three weeks. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)


Notice the proximity of this "militant" to a residential area? All of the photos I've seen so far are fairly close-cropped, so it's not clear whether there are any civilians milling about, but as we've seen before, there usually are. (With thanks to Yishai for the link!)

I'll be tracking the rest of the photos related to this latest bout of "factional" fighting. It will truly be interesting to see which group our various photographers embed themselves with. I'll be keeping a scoreboard beyond the fold, if you want to play along at home! Continue reading »