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This from Johnathan Cook almost perfectly mirrors the complaint by Israel that the BBC was too quick to blame the IDF for the hospital tragedy. I was reading the article with interest and when I got to this realised it was probably largely bollocks.
"Consider for a moment the stark contrast in the western media’s treatment of events on October 7 and its treatment of the strike on the car park at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in northern Gaza on October 17, in which hundreds of Palestinians were reported killed.
In the case of Al-Ahli, the media were only too ready to cast aside all the evidence that the hospital had been hit by an Israeli strike immediately Israel contested the claim. Instead journalists hurriedly amplified Israel’s counter-allegation that a Palestinian rocket had fallen on the hospital. Most of the media moved on after concluding “The truth may never be clear”, or even less credibly, that Palestinian militants were the most likely culprits."
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In the age of smart phones there will undoubtedly be evidence somewhere. Sadly it may never come to light for endless reasons.
Trigger alert: suffering.
Reuters hasn’t been kidding around with their coverage, but they’d stopped short of showing medically-critical children. Now with the hospitals unable to function, they’ve clearly made the editorial decision to show the world the children, even ICU babies, that will die imminently due to Israel bombardment and blockade.
Leshaches
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45466
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2023-11-02/bbc-october-7/