For many days we have read and heard from the world’s media that Israel was responsible for killing a Palestinian baby and a woman first identified as her pregnant mother.
From the very beginning the Israelis categorically denied that they were responsible. Only a few media sources saw fit to include that denial in their reports, always putting it last.
Stories bore the telling headlines: “Israelis Kill 23 Palestinians, including pregnant woman and baby.’
None of the stories noted that Israel has a long record of telling the truth, while the Palestinians have an equally long record of lying. The Israelis insisted that a rocket fired by Islamic Jihad in eastern Gaza fell short and exploded in a nearby house, killing a baby. Few in the media seemed to care..
Now we have an admission supporting Israel’s version. The Islamic Jihad terror group has admitted that a rocket it fired on Saturday evening {May 4] killed a baby in the Gaza Strip, despite initial claims she was killed in an Israeli strike.
“Gazan sources identified the victims as 14-month-old Saba Mahmoud Abu ‘Arar and her pregnant mother Falastin.
“TPS (Jewish News Agency) has learned that the baby was killed when Islamic Jihad terrorists launched a rocket towards Israel from within a populated area in the east of Gaza City, but the rocket misfired and landed short, exploding in a nearby house and killing the baby.
“The baby’s mother was not killed, but she did have a miscarriage.
“Mahmoud H., a local resident, told TPS about a massive pit he saw inside the house after the rocket’s explosion.
“The rocket was locally produced and may have malfunctioned or exploded prematurely because of the low-grade explosives.
“The Hamas-controlled Gazan Ministry of Health initially announced that Saba’s mother was killed, but then claimed that another woman named Falastin Abu ‘Arar was killed in the explosion. She may be Saba’s aunt.
“A source in Gaza told TPS that Islamic Jihad representatives met with the Abu ‘Arar family on Sunday morning and offered them full compensation and a registry of the baby as a “Shahid” entitled to long-term support in exchange for their silence.
“Arab journalists in Gaza are aware of the facts, but have refrained from reporting on them due to the sensitivity of the situation.
“TPS was successful in capturing Hamas’ report on the Islamic Jihad’s culpability.
“Hamas’ al-Risala News published a news item on the issue in its Telegram account on Sunday afternoon, but removed it shortly after. The item then appeared on another Hamas-lined Telegram channel and quickly disappeared.
The item says: “A leak from the heroes of the [Islamic Jihad’s] Sarayat al-Quds (Jerusalem Brigades) on the circumstances of the death of the baby Saba Abu ‘Arar indicates that a rocket of the resistance exploded inside the family’s home due to a technical failure, and prematurely exploded. There is a claim that the technical failure was caused by low-grade explosives in the rocket.”
“There is no doubt that the baby’s death has nothing to do with the enemy’s (Israel’s) planes,” the report added.
“The IDF stated Sunday afternoon that “Palestinian weapons caused the tragic death of a mother in Gaza and her baby.”
“Hamas blamed Israel. Journalists amplified the lie. Our assessment indicates that the incident had nothing to do with IDF strikes,” it underscored.
How many major media outlets– newspapers, radio, television –will now issue a correction, a full report about what has been admitted by Islamic Jihad and Hamas? The BBC? CBS, NBC, ABC? National Public Radio? The Guardian? The Washington Post? The New York Times? Don’t be silly.
I doubt if a single one of those major outlets will bother to carry the truthful account, the one Israel insisted on all along. They have so many other things to get right. The Mueller Report. Trump’s tax returns. Climate change. Baby-naming at Buckingham Palace. I can hear them now: “Who cares if we get a little something wrong in one more story about Gaza? Besides, the Israelis get away with so much, why should we in the unbiased mainstream media care if once in a great while Israel is wrongly accused?“
But at least you and I now know. Spread the word.

Jay says
Anyone who thinks the media is going to issue a correction is delusional. It simply does not fit their narrative so they will not mention it again.
David C. Telliho says
Palestine? wheres that ? no palestine, no palestinians,pregnant ,young or old. no harm done
oldblindjohn says
Palestinian killed at Israel-Gaza border protest after truce…Headline. Last weekend’s spate of violence, which killed four Israeli civilians and 25 Palestinians, including 10 militants. Why did the headline mention ONLY the palestinian? Anti-Israel bias? Why is that?
I’m posting this here in case I get suspended from Twitter again because a muslin complains.
gravenimage says
This kin of bias is sadly unsurprising.
oldblindjohn says
I would like to tweet this. The last time I critcized islam on twitter a muslim complained and I was suspended for 12 hours. No recourse, no appeal, couldn’t even contact Twitter to ask.
SweetOlBob says
The Manure Stream Media will never publish anything against filthy muslims. There will be no corrections published about the so called Palestinians lies. Their papers and mailings wold be empty without the filthy muslims lies.
mortimer says
What a bunch of PRESS-titutes!
CRUSADER says
All I know is what I’m told.
What I’m told is a name:
“Archie”
gravenimage says
Get Me Rewrite, Or, Who Killed The Palestinian Baby?
………………..
Yes–just grotesque calumny against Israel.
The Muslim mother and baby were victims of a Hamas rocket.
LadyTess says
I’m sorry for the loss of the child it was innocent. I’m angry that the msm are such liars and there are so many STILL listening to them like ignorant drones. I’m even more angry at ani-semitism raising it’s ugly head yet again. BTW I’m banned from TWITVERSE because I dared to speak against muslims in MY government. They’ll bring down our Constitution just watch.
Cathy says
Everyone on twitter should send out tweets calling out Islam for what it is. Let them shut down the whole tweeterverse. It’s for the birds anyway.
RT says
What the hell is “Palestinian”? 🙁
Savvy Kafir says
As far as I’m concerned, they can call themselves anything they want. “Palestinian” has become shorthand for “genocidal, Jew-hating savages & professional whiners with complete disregard for the lives & safety of their own women & children”. That’s a bit of a mouthful; so “Palestinian” works fine for me.
Kepha says
“The rocket was locally produced and may have malfunctioned or exploded prematurely because of the low-grade explosives…”
So now there will be cries to let the Hamas terrorists have state-of-the-arts explosives and weaponry…
Ric says
More fake-news propagated by the so-called Palestinians, Hamas, and the greatest conniver of Fake-News, the West’s MSM continues unabated. The age-old contrivance, blame the Jews/Israel for all that ails this planet is alive and thriving. The Western nations are, also, an integral part of the acceleration of Jew, Israel-Hatred that ravages this world. They are professing an alliance with Israel while unabashedly conspiring against Israel and worldwide Jewry. Palestine, in name, is a ruse utilized to embolden and enable a shiftless, corrupt, hate-mongering species continue upon its terrorist, bloodthirsty pathway to eradicate the sovereign State of Israel.
The faux-Palestinians are not alone in this genocidal endeavor; the quasi-Democracies of the West are equally culpable. They falsely believe that Israel is the aggressor and hinders any opportunity for a peace accord. I, for one, am anticipating the time when the EU or another Western nation faces a missile attack by the likes of Iran or another rogue state. One fears that even then those of the EU and others will remain wide-eyed.
Giacomo Latta says
Don’t give this story a unique title. Give it a number. Palestinian fake news number 34,865,438 by my count.
DirkaDirka says
It was apparently the will of allah that their rocket land on the house and kill the woman and baby. Perhaps she was unclean and the baby was the product of an adulterous coupling. inshallah.