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    Posted by Raskolnikov on July 5, 2023, 6:35 am

    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2023/jul/05/israel-jenin-forces-withdraw-gaza

    Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired five rockets toward Israel, the military said in the early hours of Wednesday, as its forces began to withdraw from the Palestinian city of Jenin after carrying out one of their biggest military operations in the occupied West Bank for years.

    The rockets from Gaza were intercepted and there were no immediate reports of casualties. Israel said its jets hit an underground weapons manufacturing facility in Gaza in response.

    Witnesses reported seeing convoys of Israeli military vehicles leaving Jenin after dark in what appeared to signal an end to the operation that began early on Monday.

    Twelve Palestinians, at least five of them fighters, were killed in the operation, which the Israeli army said was aimed at destroying militant infrastructure and weapons in the Jenin refugee camp. As the army began the withdraw, it announced that an Israeli soldier had been killed by live fire in Jenin.


    Fireworks that hurt nobody is the opening line of the report and then four paragraphs later, oh yeh, twenty Palestinians "were killed" (there's that ever present passive framing that always seems to apply to Israeli murders) but hey, "at least five of them were fighters". Right. Hang on. I'm a bit of a retard but doesn't that mean "at least fifteen of them were civilians"? You would think that would be the most important factor in the report no? In a normal world with real journalists perhaps. Or if it was done by an official enemy.


    On Tuesday, Palestinian health minister Mai al-Kaila accused the army of shooting at Palestinians in a courtyard of the Jenin public hospital.

    “Israel’s aggression reached its climax this afternoon when citizens were shot at directly in the courtyard of Jenin hospital wounding three, two of them seriously,” the minister told reporters, adding that forces had also stormed the Ibn Sina hospital.

    The Israeli army said there were reports on social media regarding fire by soldiers toward a hospital. “The reports are not currently known to security forces,” it said, adding that “terrorist organisations have exploited civilian areas as a hideout”.

    WOW. Look at that for a solidly sourced denial. "reports on social media", "not currently known to security forces". Case closed then eh guardian?

    Just for a second imagine this was a Ukrainian refuge camp being attacked by Russian forces, shooting hospitals, cutting power and water lines. I'm sure they would report that the same...

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