The IDF killed Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi tonight.
Here’s the first item of absurd coverage, two sentences into the main BBC report :
The [IDF] attack came hours after a suicide bomber killed himself and an Israeli soldier at the Erez checkpoint just north of Gaza city.
The BBC’s Peter Greste in Gaza City says people are speculating that the attack was in response to the suicide bombing.
Right…the IDF suddenly decided to target mass murderer Rantisi, a couple of hours before.
Reuters, meanwhile, has decided that Rantisi’s interior decorating is an essential part of this breaking story:
With Rantissi filling the role of Hamas spokesman, camera crews from around the world have trooped to his modestly furnished living room to hear him issue vows of revenge, often in calm, even tones, for Israel’s killing of militants.
But then there’s Jerusalem NewsWire’s take:
Israel executed the blood-soaked Yassin less than one month ago as the venerated terror chief left a Gaza mosque.
At the time, Rantisi vowed to “open the gates of hell” in response.
Tonight those gates opened for him.
