Time magazine’s Tim McGirk explains the media’s impact on how the Gaza fuel “crisis” is playing out:
Still, the international outcry over Israel’s ban of fuel shipments to Gaza — spurred on by TV footage of Palestinian children huddled in the darkness and hospitals struggling to treat medical emergencies — prompted Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday to lift the fuel ban, and allow in medicine, supplies of cooking gas and a week’s supply of fuel to run the power plant that feeds electricity to hospitals and sewage and water pumping stations.
Israeli officials grumble that they have been outfoxed by the PR machine of Hamas, and that they are being held to a double standard: While Israel is scolded by the United Nations for inflicting “collective punishment” on Gaza, Israelis say that Palestinian militants have no qualms about ignoring international condemnation and targeting Israeli civilians with their badly aimed homemade rockets. (Gaza militants fired over a hundred rockets during the past week, but miraculously no Israelis were killed.)
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