Soccer Dad

Where have the children gone?

I read this article

Israeli fire killed three Palestinian children and wounded one of their cousins on Wednesday as they played in a field in the northern Gaza Strip at the tail end of their summer holidays.

Yahya Ramadan Ghazal, 12, and his cousin Mahmud Mussa Ghazal, 10, were killed when Israeli artillery fire from across the border slammed into a field east of Jabaliya refugee camp, witnesses and a medical official said.

A nine-year-old cousin, Sara Suleiman Ghazal was critically wounded in the incident and rushed to the Kamal Radwan hospital in nearby Beit Lahiya where she died later, a medical official said.

and wondered why Israel seems to kill so many children. Would we find out confirmation of what Israel charged in the article?

Elder of Ziyon had shown this in the past.

The Washington Post's Scott Wilson, surprisingly, reported confirmation of the Israeli charges.

A member of the Abu Ghazallah family who witnessed the airstrike said a rocket launcher was near the area where the children were playing. The relative, who declined to be named for fear of reprisal, said the launcher belonged to Islamic Jihad, an armed movement responsible for much of the rocket fire into Israel.

"I hold the Islamic Jihad responsible for the killing of these children," the relative said.

Bookworm Room engages in an exercise of Here's how the story could have been reported. While it's been confirmed that those killed were children, she shows how selecting what to report or emphasize greatly affects the way a news report sounds.

israel, terrorism, media bias.