But for Hamas, it’s just an opportunity to blame Israel, and the willing (fake) media couldn’t wait to report it.
H/T: Doris Wise Montrose:
“Erin Burnett of CNN accused Israel of killing 17 children in a Gaza school. Turns out that it was Hamas that fired the rocket and is responsible for these deaths. I’m sure as soon as she learns of the truth, she will correct her story and apologize to Israel and Ron Dermer. Click on the link and retweet: Twitter / cjhsla: .@ErinBurnett Are you going …
Update: Hamas Misfired Rocket Hit UNRWA School where 17 Killed
The UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. In 2007. it was repeatedly used as a launch site for mortars. (Archive 2007)
Photo Credit: IDF
UNRWA has admitted that a Hamas misfired rocket hit a U.N.-run school in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, according to Channel 2′s Ehud Ya’ari, but an errant IDF artillery shell also may have hit the facility, where Gaza sources claim an estimated 17 children and United Nations personnel were killed and 200 others were wounded Thursday afternoon.
Other sources have said the death toll is closer to 10.
Ya’ari also reported that one IDF shell struck the school, but this has not been verified.
The IDF spokesman remarked, and UNRWA confirmed, that misfired Hamas rockets fell and exploded in the area of the Beit Hanoun school. The IDF also reported there was significant combat in that area, where Hamas has used schools and hospitals as terror bases. The army shot artillery shells at Hamas targets, and one of the shells may have gone off course.
However, if even one of the explosions was a result of Hamas rockets, which seems to be the case, foreign media will have to throw up their hands in surrender to their constant attempt to show Israel as a mass murderer of innocent children.
Israel was immediately blamed for supposedly bombing the school, and UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness jumped all over the IDF for the tragedy.
Israel has made it clear that Hamas is responsible for any and all deaths.
Foreign news agencies already have blamed Israel and have published gory pictures of the aftermath of the attacks, which came a day after U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon expressed “alarm” that 20 rockets were found for the second time in a UNRWA school but that they had “gone missing.”
The IDF initially responded to the report of the alleged bombing of the school in Beit Hanoun with a statement saying, the IDF is “currently in the midst of combat, with Hamas terrorists in the area of Beit Hanoun, who are using civilian infrastructure and international symbols as human shields. In the course of the afternoon, several rockets launched by Hamas from within the Gaza Strip landed in the Beit Hanoun area. The IDF is reviewing the incident.”
Beit Hanoun has been a favorite site for terrorists because of its close proximity to Gaza Belt communities.
Approximately 20-30 percent of Hamas rockets have landed or exploded inside Gaza, and Channel 10 television said that UNRWA, after having spewed out anger at the IDF, has confirmed that Hamas was the source of the attacks.
