UPDATE
Following HonestReporting’s contact with ABC, they have amended the story and added the following Editors Note:
Editor’s note March 14, 2016: This story has been amended to clarify that the home in which the two children died was next to one of the Hamas camps being targeted in the air strikes.
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An Australian Broadcasting Corporation article “Gaza siblings killed in air strike after rockets hit Israel” leads with the following paragraph:
A 10-year-old Palestinian boy and his six-year-old sister have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home while they were sleeping, in retaliation for militants firing rockets into Israel.
Israel did indeed “retaliate” for the Hamas rocket attack. The IDF’s retaliation was to attack Hamas targets in the area. A tragic, but unintentional consequence of the strike was that these two children, who live next to a Hamas training camp, were killed. But the article implies that Israel purposefully killed the children as revenge — a gross distortion of what happened.
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