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CNN: Poor Hamas Victims Being Mourned Right This Moment By Long-Suffering Palestinians

Oh come on:

No sympathy for real victims

At no point - not once - is it mentioned that Israel was responding to months and months of rockets and mortars falling on Sderot. The absolutely closest is this perfunctory line in paragraph 12...

Israel's military cited its ongoing battle against Gaza's terrorist infrastructure as the reason for the Gaza City raid.

... or this inscrutable suggestion that something may be going on in Sderot, complete with the always lovely "Israeli X said" to imply that these facts are somehow in question:

Israeli ambulance services said five people sustained minor injuries when a dozen Qassam rockets struck southern Israel. Most of the rockets landed in and around the southern Israeli town of Sderot, a frequent target of such attacks.

Certainly conveys the gravity of months of daily bombing, doesn't it? There is in fact no quote about the attack from any Israeli politician, and nothing linking the daily bombardment of Sderot to today's raid. The only explanation for the raid is Hamas's murder of a kibbutz worker - which the article goes out of its way beforehand to point out happened after the raid started.

Maybe CNN just ran out of room after filling the article with paragraphs and paragraphs about Israeli "massacres," "spies," and "aggression against our people." You'd think they could have taken out one of the four "aggression" or "massacre" quotes to see what the Israeli Defense Ministry or Foreign Ministry had to say about the raid.

Oh well, at least the Israeli victims suffered only "minor injuries" and "light wounds" - which the article emphasizes twice just to make sure the message sinks in. Israeli sources had a different view of the injuries. The girl, by the by, is 5:

5 year old victim of Palestinian bombings

Victim of Palestinian bombings

This is almost as good as the time CNN called Israel's Lebanon II Defense Minister a "war chief".

References:
* Hamas mourns Israeli raid victims [CNN]
* CNN Writers Tired Of Hiding Their True Feelings: They Kind Of Think Israelis Are Warmongers, And They Don't Care Who Knows [MR]

Previously:
* Cal Perry, This Week's CNN Mouthpiece For Hamas Propaganda, Is An Idiot
* CNN Wants You To Know That Lebanese Kids Are Suffering Because of Lebanon's Act of War. Israeli Kids Suffering for Lebanon's Act of War Not Discussed.
* Picture You Won't See on CNN

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