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Italian reporter confirms: Hamas rocket killed children on playground

Jul 30, 2014 8:24 pm By Robert Spencer

childreninjuredHamas blames the IDF, of course, and so does the international media. But now this reporter, out of Gaza and safe from what he tellingly refers to as “Hamas retaliation,” confirms the Israeli account. The propaganda facade is broken yet again.

“Italian Reporter Reveals Hamas Cover-Up Over Misfired Rockets,” by Ari Soffer, Arutz Sheva, July 30, 2014:

An Italian journalist who until Tuesday was embedded in Gaza has backed the IDF’s account of a rocket strike on a school playground in central Gaza’s Shati refugee camp on Monday.

At least 10 people were killed in the attack – most of them children – and some sources claimed the death toll was as high as 30. Palestinian sources were quick to blame Israel, claiming that an Israeli fighter jet fired missiles directly at the playground and nearby hospital. Israel denied the accusations, saying that Hamas rockets aimed at Israel from the area misfired, and struck both the school and the hospital…

Verifying facts on the ground in Gaza is notoriously difficult for foreign reporters, and even for Palestinian journalists seen as aligned with the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, as journalists are closely watched by Hamas security forces and can face interrogation and a permanent ban from Gaza for publishing material deemed unfavorable to the territory’s Islamist rulers. As such, little information has emerged on what exactly happened that day in Shati.

But returning from a stint in Gaza, and safe from what he ominously referred to as potential “Hamas retaliation”, Italian journalist Gabriele Barbati broke the media silence by tweeting the following message, confirming that Hamas terrorists rushed to cover up evidence of what was indeed errant rocket fire aimed at Israel:

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During the 23 days of Operation Protective Edge a handful of journalists have defied, purposefully or inadvertently, Hamas’s restrictions on reporting negative information from Gaza – only to backtrack soon after.

Two cases in particular were highlighted earlier this week. In one, Wall Street Journal reported Nick Casey tweeted evidence – and veiled criticism – over Hamas’s leadership’s use of Shifa Hospital in Gaza as a command center, shedding more light on the group’s use of human shields. Hamas reacted furiously, and a Hamas-affiliated twitter account blacklisted him as a journalist “who lies for Israel” – a potentially deadly accusation for anyone in Gaza, let alone a foreigner. Shortly afterwards, the tweet was promptly removed by Casey….

Numerous foreign journalists have admitted to interviewing Hamas leaders inside the hospital, but their reports are notable for the lack of emphasis placed on such a flagrant violation of international law.

In the second case, another WSJ journalist tweeted evidence of a Hamas rocket misfire which damaged Gaza’s main hospital. Again, shortly after tweeting it, Tamer El-Ghobashi removed the evidence.

Deleted tweets:

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The use of human shields by Gazan terrorist groups during the current conflict has been repeatedly documented. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad have stored and fired rockets from within densely-populated civilian areas, making Israeli attempts to stop them without causing collateral damage near to impossible. To compound the problem, Hamas has openly encouraged civilians to act as human shields, glorifying their actions as heroism.

Terrorists have also used hospitals and schools as command centers and military bases.

On Tuesday, the United Nations Work and Relief Agency (UNWRA) admitted that it had discovered rockets stored in one of its schools for the third time.

Hamas has not issued a response to Barbari’s claims, and it is unclear whether he will face a ban from reporting from the Strip in the future. But whatever happens to him, his claims raise some uncomfortable questions about the objectivity of reports coming from Gaza – in particular the accuracy of the much-touted civilian death toll, and who may be responsible for it.

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  1. Daniel Triplett says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    Likely intentional for the propaganda value.

    They can’t penetrate the Iron Dome, so now they do this.

    Demonic.

  2. Richie says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 9:00 pm

    Don’t expect the anti semitic leftist media to change their narrative that the Israelis were the ones who fired the rockets at the ‘poor helpless Muslims’

    • Richie says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 9:02 pm

      The Muslims are he ones butchering children, killing Jewish and Muslims alike. The misery of the ‘Palestinians’ is all of their own making

      • Frederikahere says

        Jul 31, 2014 at 2:19 am

        The Palestinians voted in Hamas in their election.
        Elections have consequences.

        • Oliver says

          Jul 31, 2014 at 1:32 pm

          And no elections since-in what-8 or so years?

          Not, in my opinion, the PA and fatah are any better or less corrupt

        • frederikahere says

          Jul 31, 2014 at 4:57 pm

          Thank you for further making my point.

  3. BUTSeriously says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 11:02 pm

    When a Roman Pope calls Muslims as Palestinians, all can accuse Israel of illegally occupying Israel and demand never ending 2-states in the same tiny land. Read: Israel has no right to exist. Gee thanks, Roman Pope, say hello to your Roman ancestors. And the silence from Christians is deafening.

  4. Beagle says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 11:46 pm

    I saw a Pallywood production a couple hours ago on FNC.

    Thanks to Islam I have become an expert on what someone looks like after an explosion. To cut to the chase: dusty. Usually scraped up a lot, possibly with limbs missing or with no head, but ALWAYS very dusty.

    This particular production fit the usual MO. There were dozens of media cameramen all in the same location. Women were ‘crying’ without actual tears coming out of their eyes. Men were screaming and carrying on as ambulances moved in and out of the frame. A man theatrically ran up with a child in his arms who had been “hit by an Israeli air strike.” Thing is, the boy looked like he’s just taken a shower and gotten dressed for school. No blood, fine. But no dust as well. Then the story cut to a girl with a poorly-wrapped bandage on her neck absent any blood, or again, dust.

    It’s not like the media is going to check this stuff. We’ve established they cover up using the main hospital as a command and control bunker. The media deletes the few truthful tweets they send out. Not surprisingly, Pallywood is taking full advantage.

    Thomas the Catholic: Fabrizio Quattrocchi in 2006. A true hero and martyr.

    • dsinc says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 3:22 am

      Good observation there Beagle, no dust, I had a crash in a sports car on a dirt road years ago and was covered in dust. The totally biased South African Broadcasting Corporation showed images of the kids being carried from the schoolyard to waiting ambulances and there was no dust, and no visible injuries showing either. Kids with composed faces, not a tear in sight. A Pallywood production for sure and the SABC ran with it. Naturally, they blamed the IDF for the bombing. Sickening. Too many “Palestinian” supporters in South Africa.

  5. No Fear says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:58 am

    Just because the TV sees a hole in the ground in Gaza, that doesn’t mean it was the Israelis that made the hole.

    • Oliver says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 1:44 pm

      True; The muzzies could have dug it to use as a bathroom- since they don’t use toilet paper, why bother with bathrooms and bathroom fixtures?

      Or, they could have bombd tehmselves for publicity-and sympathy.

      And as to Pallywood-not sure if you mean Hollywood or the Indian movies, but Hollywood ‘stars” are as bad and also hate this country (US) which ahs made them rich.

  6. Angemon says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 6:47 am

    journalists are closely watched by Hamas security forces and can face interrogation and a permanent ban from Gaza for publishing material deemed unfavorable to the territory’s Islamist rulers.

    Need anyone say more?

  7. Doc says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 9:10 am

    Theses people are lying miserable creature who hate Israel and want the world too. This is what our president is funding with our tax dollars he’s is one of them and should be impeached and charges brought against him . Treason and human trafficking disgraceful

  8. Elisheva14 says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 5:00 pm

    I believe that Israelis don’t like killing anyone: especially children, women and civilians. When they think that they may have harmed someone; it is bad for the country’s morale. I think that cuts deeper than what the International community says. It is known that no one is as moral as the IDF. They purposely avoid places where these death would occur. Even if they kill inadvertently, they would feel badly (Jewish guilt). They do not hate these Palestinian children: they want peace. They want to protect Israel from the Terrorists. Hamas, on the other hand wants to kill any Jew…they are taught to hate Jews. Hamas knows that these tactics of lying helps they cause.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 9:47 pm

      Yes.

      That is why I disbelieve, straightaway, any hysterical claims – or any “reports” that try to imply – that the IDF is deliberately and preferentially targetting babies, children or other innocent noncombatants. I *know* those claims to be false. (And when the only “witnesses” are Mohammedans, then I factor in what I know of the mohammedan doctrine that “war is deceit” and the ubiquity of falsehood and sheer BS and madhattery amongst the Ummah).

      I can fully believe that there is and can be, on the part of Israel, human error, and confusion, and collateral damage.

      But *not* the sort of deliberate, calculated, preferential targeting of the most vulnerable and helpless that one sees, all the time, from the *other* side, from the Jihadis when they are attacking Jews, or Christians, or anybody else.

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