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Airstrike on Aleppo Hospital While World Watched Gaza

While everyone watched Israel and Hamas slug it out, the Syrian civil war continued. So you can be forgiven for missing a Syrian airstrike on a hospital in Aleppo. The media wrung its hands over…

Pesach Benson
November 22, 2012
12:00 am

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While everyone watched Israel and Hamas slug it out, the Syrian civil war continued.

So you can be forgiven for missing a Syrian airstrike on a hospital in Aleppo.

The media wrung its hands over Palestinian casualties — collateral damage, thanks to Hamas using Shifa Hospital as cover for rocket launches and intentionally embedding itself in populated areas.

Now that the foreign press corps in Israel and Gaza have set the bar on concern for civilian casualties, will we see a similar level of righteous indignation at Syria?

Or do only Palestinians enjoy disproportionate coverage?

(Image via YouTube/fnnsyrianews)

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Tags: civilian casualties, Gaza, human shields, Operation Pillar of Defense, Syria

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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