Gaza Child Killed… By Hamas
November 18, 2012 9:01 by Simon PloskerThis iconic image made its way around the world. Fighting back tears at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, Egyptian Prime Minister held 4-year old Mahmoud Sadallah in his arms and called on Israel to end its military operations.
A PR gift for Hamas, eager to portray the IDF as vicious child killers.
While the boy was allegedly killed by an IDF airstrike, it occurred during the time that a ceasefire was in effect for the visit of the Egyptian PM. A ceasefire that Hamas broke, firing more rockets while even Israel refrained from launching airstrikes.
The truth has now emerged. Credit to some journalists for admitting, for once, that Israel was not the responsible party. The Sunday Telegraph reports (emphasis added):
But there were signs on Saturday that not all the Palestinian casualties have been the result of Israeli air strikes. The highly publicised death of four-year-old Mohammed Sadallah appeared to have been the result of a misfiring home-made rocket, not a bomb dropped by Israel.
The child’s death on Friday figured prominently in media coverage after Hisham Kandil, the Egyptian prime minister, was filmed lifting his dead body out of an ambulance. “The boy, the martyr, whose blood is still on my hands and clothes, is something that we cannot keep silent about,” he said, before promising to defend the Palestinian people.
But experts from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights who visited the site on Saturday said they believed that the explosion was caused by a Palestinian rocket.
There is only one party that not only deliberately targets innocent Israeli children but also has no qualms about putting the lives of Palestinian children at risk.
The media must acknowledge that dead babies and children play an essential role in Hamas’s propaganda war. The media must be responsible for checking the veracity of Hamas casualty claims.
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Des in Spain
4:38 pm
Nov 18, 2012
Just one question – why are the dead boy’s eyes open, looking up at the “grieving” uncles? The always close dead peoples’ eyes with coins until r.m. sets in.
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Naseeba
9:32 pm
Nov 18, 2012
Because CNN is Arab owned, therefore it will ALWAYS be pro Arab/Muslim and not report events honestly!
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Ari
4:57 pm
Nov 18, 2012
This is so frustrating. CNN still has the video up on their homepage. Here is the link:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/bestoftv/2012/11/17/pkg-sidner-gaza-child-killed.cnn
Please contact them and tell them that this child was killed by Hamas and not Israel!
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Wobbletwig
5:18 pm
Nov 18, 2012
Has it been verified that the child has been killed? Hamas love to stage scenes like this. Remeber Muhummad Al Dura. He was also killed by Israeli soldiers. And then a miracle. He was brought back to life.
Very strange that Haniya (who is hiding like a cockroach) and Kandil were on hand to witness the tradgedy.
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frank
5:43 pm
Nov 18, 2012
All I can say is may Moshiach come speedily in our days and bring the final redemption to the world . That day will come whenno more war and no more bate.
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Diego
9:32 pm
Nov 18, 2012
Pallywood,,,,,where is barack ohamas? suporrting who?
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Nov 18, 2012
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Teddy Bear
11:37 pm
Nov 18, 2012
Any honest media outlet would recognise and report on the fact that by Hamas using built up civilian areas as a human shield to launch their rockets, knowing full well that Israel will have no choice but to retaliate with the inevitable casualties, that these are a part of the Hamas strategy.
If the media did this, then the average person around the world would condemn Hamas for perpetrating this strategy, who would then be less likely to continue, with fewer casualties on both sides.
Which is how very easily we can recognise the agenda of the BBC in perpetrating the Hamas strategy by pushing the amount of CLAIMED casualties resulting from Israeli air strikes, without providing context.
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Nov 19, 2012
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Nov 19, 2012
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marilyn lowenstein
2:56 am
Nov 19, 2012
Sunday night , November 18,2012, on the 6 o’clock news on CNN, a news reporter told his audience that if they are faint of heart don’t watch the following scene of a dead child killed by the Israeli airstrikes. Did CNN show pictures of Israeli children being shot down by Hamas rockets.
What about the Fogel family being stabbed to death in their beds by Palestinian teenagers.
Is that a way to make peace.
Hamas has been shooting rockets for months now, and Israel has done nothing in return. As soon as Israel retaliates , the world including CNN weeps for “Hamas.”
By the way , is the world weeping for the Syrian people who are being slaughtered by their own leader, Assad.
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BizzyBlog
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Nov 19, 2012
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Nov 19, 2012
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beau milos
9:16 am
Nov 19, 2012
the mainstream media is really turned our world upside down. good is bad and bad is good, just another thing the bible predicted would happen, i weep and pray for peace for israel and pray that muslims take the log out of their eye’s and see that they are sending themselves to the pit and the west, we individually will not escape this for turning our backs and doing nothing to protect in alliance with God his inheritence Israel and his people from the enemies of the book, the neighbouring muslim world,the islamic anti-messiah religion that would come after the sixth empire, rome. seventh was islamic calithfa and the eighth will be the resurrected calithfa and this is themselves proclaiming t
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Egypt is a Theocracy
11:14 am
Nov 19, 2012
Worth noting: The Egyptian Prime Minister took responsibility for killing the boy. He said,
“The boy, the martyr, whose blood is still on my hands.”
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beau milos
12:00 pm
Nov 19, 2012
he probably feels guilty that he hasn’t already driven the israeli’s out to sea and slaughtered them in an invasion
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