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shira

(30,109 posts)
23. That's complete garbage and you know it. Foreign Journo's have busted Hamas....
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 05:27 AM
Sep 2016

No one, and I mean absolutely no one believes this....

Reports have also emerged during the current conflict of Hamas urging residents to ignore Israeli warnings to evacuate. However, these calls may have been motivated by a desire to minimize panic and displacement.....


Here are foreign Journo's reporting the obvious that Amnesty is trying to censor....

Foreign journalists receive death threats for ‘fabricating information for Israel,’ accused of informing on terrorists.
http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Gaza-reporters-tweets-Hamas-using-human-shields-368689

Several journalists from around the world reported seeing rockets fired from civilian areas in Gaza in recent days, and received threatening tweets in return accusing them of “informing” the IDF. On Wednesday, Peter Stefanovic of Australia’s Channel Nine News tweeted: “Hamas rockets just launched over our hotel from a site about two hundred metres away. So a missile launch site is basically next door.” An account called @ThisIsGaza said this was Stefanovic’s fourth time “passing and fabricating information to Israel... from GAZA” and threatened to sue him. Another account, @longitude0 wrote: “You are a cretin. Are you working for the IDF” and “in WWII spies got shot.”

Financial Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief John Reed reported seeing “two rockets fired toward Israel from near al-Shifa hospital, even as more bombing victims were brought in.” Shifa, in Gaza City, is the main medical facility in the Strip. In response, @Saritah_91 tweeted: “We’ll hold you responsible if Israel uses your tweet to bomb the hospital & then justify it.” Another twitter user, @ Faysal_FreeGaza, said he’s “subtly justifying and encouraging IDF attacks on hospitals,” and @Maysara_ ara wrote: “Get out of Gaza u informant.”

Wall Street Journal correspondent Nick Casey tweeted on Tuesday a photo of a Hamas official using Shifa hospital for media interviews, writing: “You have to wonder w the shelling how patients at Shifa hospital feel as Hamas uses it as a safe place to see interviews.” By Wednesday, the tweet was deleted, but pro-Palestinian Twitter accounts continued to include him on lists of “journos in Gaza who lie/fabricate info for Israel” and “must be sued for crimes.” On Sunday, Janis Mackey Frayer, a correspondent for Canada’s CTV, tweeted that, while in Gaza City’s Shejaiya’s neighborhood, she “saw several Hamas gunmen. One passed dressed in a woman’s headscarf... tip of a gun poked out from under cloak.” She received threats similar to those sent to other reporters.

Harry Fear, a journalist from the UK reporting from Gaza for RT (formerly Russia Today) television, tweeted last week: “Early morning Gaza rockets were fired into Israel. A well-known site in W. Gaza City, near my hotel, was among the origins, confirm locals.” Fear then took on the critics, tweeting soon after that he rejects “loaded complaints that I ‘informed’ Israel about the specifics of Gaza military sites... These sites are well-known among locals and internationals here.” “Should a journalist only report the noise and ferocity of Israel’s attacks & not the sounds of Gaza’s rockets? Both terrify people,” he tweeted. Later that day, Fear tweeted: “Al-Wafa hospital has been hit in the last while; injuries reported – this is the hospital with human shields.”


I just want to know why you find it so important to defend Hamas from these war crimes?

Can you please tell me?
Nice spin from good old Jonathan Cook oberliner Sep 2016 #1
LoL. Jonathan "Kook" is a real POS. n/t shira Sep 2016 #2
It's indeed quite possible that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. Little Tich Sep 2016 #3
No other explanation? King_David Sep 2016 #4
Many of those civilians were killed inside their homes or in close vicinity, and Israel knew they we Little Tich Sep 2016 #8
That's just absurd King_David Sep 2016 #16
Please. You're not being serious, not by a long shot... shira Sep 2016 #19
You mean civilians among Hamas fighters ALSO dressed as civilians? shira Sep 2016 #5
Targeting homes of civilians with civilians inside could possibly be a war crime. Little Tich Sep 2016 #10
And yet top military personnel around the globe say Israel exceeded legal standards... shira Sep 2016 #13
Two can play this game... Little Tich Sep 2016 #20
Your sources deny Hamas uses human shields in order to win the PR war & get Gazans killed.... shira Sep 2016 #24
So why would all these military commanders from around the globe say Israel.... shira Sep 2016 #25
For me it's not inconceivable that a bunch of pro-Israel military people speak out in support of Little Tich Sep 2016 #26
Of course not for you, but it's unprecedented that so many western military leaders.... shira Sep 2016 #27
It may be "possible"... but it's CERTAIN that Hamas did. FBaggins Sep 2016 #6
That's for DAMNED sure about Hamas. Why aren't they being tried for war crimes? shira Sep 2016 #7
Hamas killed 6 Israeli civilians while the IDF killed 1462 Palestinian civilians. Little Tich Sep 2016 #9
You're defending Hamas against human shield & child militant war crimes.... shira Sep 2016 #12
It really isn't fair to call them "human shields"... this is far worse FBaggins Sep 2016 #15
True, but to accuse Hamas of the obvious isn't very PC for some reason. shira Sep 2016 #17
On the subject of the use of human shields: Little Tich Sep 2016 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author 6chars Sep 2016 #22
That's complete garbage and you know it. Foreign Journo's have busted Hamas.... shira Sep 2016 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author 6chars Sep 2016 #11
Yeah... shira Sep 2016 #14
Already done... King_David Sep 2016 #18
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