Israel Matzav

#HamasKilledBaby

I am sure that many of you saw the image above in print and broadcast media on Friday and Saturday. A collection of captions from around the world shows that - once again - Israel is being blamed for the child's death.

Elder of Ziyon has evidence that the child was killed by an errant Hamas missile that never made it out of Gaza.

There is a lot of evidence for this. Read the New York Times' account of his death:

The Abu Wardah family woke up on Friday morning to word that a hudna — Arabic for cease-fire — had been declared during the three-hour visit of the Egyptian prime minister to this embattled territory. So, after two days of huddling indoors to avoid intensifying Israeli air assaults, Abed Abu Wardah, the patriarch, went to the market to buy fruits and vegetables. His 22-year-old son, Aiman, took an empty blue canister to be refilled with cooking gas. The younger children of their neighborhood, Annazla, in this town north of Gaza City went out to the dirt alley to kick a soccer ball.

But around 9:45 a.m., family members and neighbors said, an explosion struck a doorway near the Abu Wardah home, killing Aiman Abu Wardah as he returned from his errand, as well as Mahmoud Sadallah, 4, who lived next door and had refused his older cousin’s pleas to stay indoors.

It is unclear who was responsible for the strike on Annazla: the damage was nowhere near severe enough to have come from an Israeli F-16, raising the possibility that an errant missile fired by Palestinian militants was responsible for the deaths. What seems clear is that expectations for a pause in the fighting, for at least one family, were tragically misplaced.

The IDF did not launch any airstrikes in Gaza while Egyptian PM Kandil was in Gaza.

 Read the whole thing. And use the hashtag (#HamasKilledBaby) to post on Twitter.

Labels: anti-Israel media bias, Hamas, Operation Pillar of Defense, Pallywood

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:46 PM