In yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor, Friday’s deadly explosion at a Hamas parade was described as follows:
…hostilities spilled over again on Friday after a bomb killed 18 people at rally held in Gaza by the militant group Hamas. The PA, Hamas, and Israel all traded blame over the bombing, which was followed by a series of Hamas rocket attacks – 35 in all – on towns in southern Israel on Saturday, wounding five.
Actually, the PA and Israel were in agreement: the people were killed by Hamas weapons (unintentionally). It took CSM more than another 350 words to explain:
…most Israeli and PA sources viewed Friday’s bombing as Hamas’s fault – the Palestinian interior minister called it an internal “accident,” indicating that someone was working on building a bomb…
Given the importance of this point, why didn’t CSM just give us the facts in the first place?
