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'Do No Harm'
 Newsweek talked to gunmen who admitted using a hospital for firing at Israel:
One of the most notorious incidents during the war was the Jan. 15 shelling of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society buildings in the downtown Tal-al Hawa part of Gaza City, followed by a shell hitting their Al Quds Hospital next door; the subsequent fire forced all 500 patients to be evacuated . . . In the Tal-al Hawa neighborhood nearby, however, Talal Safadi, an official in the leftist Palestinian People's Party, said that resistance fighters were firing from positions all around the hospital. He shrugged that off, having a bigger beef with Hamas. "They failed to win the battle."
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Just as enlightening (and disappointing) is the blatant lying that goes unchallenged:
"'They were claiming there are tunnels under here,' she said. ... 'There aren't any tunnels around here, we are not resistance,' she said. Yet not more than 20 feet away from (her), there was just such a tunnel, which Israeli troops had unearthed. Right in the middle of the road, it had a convincingly camouflaged roof that matched the rest of the road. Inside it was shored up with timbers and concrete."
While the reporter does, at least, report the lie, he does not challenge it. Further, he does not make the connection that the "person on the street" in Gaza is not a credible source of information.
Posted by: Jeff Greene at Jan 21, 2009 6:12:50 PM
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