There is substantial evidence that Islamic jihadists were responsible for an explosion at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday but you wouldn’t know that from the corporate media coverage dominating newsstands and screens all over the world.
As of Wednesday morning, members of the American corporate media complex had spent the majority of their Israel and Gaza reporting over the past 24 hours amplifying terrorist propaganda that accused Israel, which spent the last few days issuing evacuation warnings in Gaza ahead of their retaliation, of war crimes.
Just about every large print and TV outlet including The Washington Post, CNN, The Associated Press, and The New York Times ran early reports spreading Palestinians’ claims that Israel fired a missile at a Gaza hospital, killing hundreds.
Every single piece of information the press “reported” about the incident over the last 24 hours, it turns out, looks like it was a groundless lie.
Evidence from multiple sources indicates that Israel didn’t “strike” the Gaza-based hospital that was said to have housed hundreds of the sick, injured, and displaced. The terrorists in Gaza, it appears, misfired a rocket that sent shards of shrapnel toward the medical facility.
When reports of the explosion surfaced, the press didn’t blame or even question Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which have a track record of blowing up their own and storing weapons in or near hospitals, over their insistence that the rocket belonged to Israel. Instead, outlets like MSNBC accused
