CNN Duped By Sad Story Of Dead Palestinian Child ‘Killed By Israel’?
But there were signs on Saturday that not all the Palestinian casualties have been the result of Israeli air strikes. The highly publicised death of four-year-old Mohammed Sadallah appeared to have been the result of a misfiring home-made rocket, not a bomb dropped by Israel.
The child’s death on Friday figured prominently in media coverage after Hisham Kandil, the Egyptian prime minister, was filmed lifting his dead body out of an ambulance. “The boy, the martyr, whose blood is still on my hands and clothes, is something that we cannot keep silent about,” he said, before promising to defend the Palestinian people.
But experts from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights who visited the site on Saturday said they believed that the explosion was caused by a Palestinian rocket.
Adding more fuel to the flames of skepticism was the New York Times report on the childÂ’s death:
It is unclear who was responsible for the strike on Annazla: the damage was nowhere near severe enough to have come from an Israeli F-16, raising the possibility that an errant missile fired by Palestinian militants was responsible for the deaths. What seems clear is that expectations for a pause in the fighting, for at least one family, were tragically misplaced.
Naturally, the conservative sites have called upon CNN to issue a correction or retraction — neither of which has yet to come. And as of press time, CNN hasn’t responded to our request for comment.
In a battle that seemingly has no end in sight, and plays out mostly in heavily crowded urban spaces like Gaza City, we are likely to see more of these complicated controversies arise.
Watch the original CNN report below:
