Last night, an IDF strike hit a Hamas terror-training camp in progress. The Jerusalem Post quoted Palestinian media reports that the 14 killed and 25 wounded were “members of the Hamas military wing,” while Haaretz quoted a Hamas statement that Israel had indeed hit a “scouts camp where a group of fighters was training.” According to the IDF statement, Hamas was training recruits to plant and detonate explosives, fire RPGs and Kassam rockets, and infiltrate Israeli targets.
Since nobody disputes that all the casualties were members of Hamas training for terrorism, we’re bewildered by the quotation marks in this BBC headline:
Gaza strike kills 14 ‘militants’
Did the Beeb have doubts whether “militants” or “scouts” were at this camp?
In an unrelated issue, Israel announced it was redrawing the route of southern portions of the security fence, prompting the following backhanded Reuters headline:
Israel Plans to Grab Less West Bank Land for Barrier
