The weekend witnessed yet more Palestinian violence at the Gaza border. While the international media continue to refer to events there as ‘protests,’ the reality is far more serious.
Protest hardly begins to describe 14,000 Palestinians thronging the border fence areas, burning tires and throwing rocks, firebombs and grenades at IDF soldiers stationed atop earth mounds on the other side of the barrier, as was the case on Friday October 12.
As a result, seven Palestinians were killed in the rioting, including three who breached the border fence and ran toward IDF soldiers. The figure of seven dead was put out by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry.
It’s one thing to question Palestinian casualty figures when they come from Hamas, which has an interest in inflating the numbers. It’s quite another for a media outlet to multiply those very numbers.
Euronews clearly had a hard time with the math, as well as differentiating between protests and riots.
Dozens killed?!
Since when did seven equal dozens?
We complained to Euronews and the headline and text has now been corrected.
Nonetheless, it is incredibly unprofessional that such a blatant exaggeration could have been published at all in addition to taking over a day to fix.
