This excerpt from The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler



A Dozen Palis Killed In Raid
Seems the IDF finally had it with the Palis firing rockets into Israeli settlements and decided to go clean out Gaza a little.

As the IDF withdrew after the raid, armed gunmen assembled in the streets and fired at the IDF, according to Israeli Brig.Gen. Israel Ziff. Helicopters were called in and opened fire on the groups of armed men, killing 12 (as of this time)

What does, say, the Roto-Reuters "news" agency have to say about this?

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Monday, including 10 who died when a helicopter missile hit a crowd, in a raid that battered a new international peace effort.
Yep, that's the IDF for ya, firing willy-nilly at non-specific "crowds" so's to batter the "peace efforts" that have met with so much success in the past.

But what about The Children™?

Don't worry, the Roto-Reuters are right on it:

They said a child of about 12 was among those killed in Israel's helicopter-backed tank incursion into Khan Younis when the missile hit a group of people who had come out of their homes and gathered outside a mosque thinking the raid was over.
...gathering peacefully by the mosque with absolutely NO weapons anywhere, nosirree...

But why, oh omniscient "news" agency, why?

The Israeli army said the aim of Monday's incursion was to hit the "terrorist infrastructure" of Hamas, which has spearheaded a two-year-old Palestinian uprising for independence and carried out a wave of suicide bombings.
Thank you so much for the sneer quotes. We wouldn't want anybody to think that there were actually any terrorists nearby, would we? Oh no we wouldn't. It's only an "uprising for independence", after all.

Reuters, one man's news agency is another man's case of third stage syphilis.

source: [url]