Kudos to news orgs and others pinning down the source of the explosion outside the Gaza hospital

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...and presenting evidence that it was a failed Hamas missile that struck the parking lot outside the hospital.

What I'm wondering is why we haven't seen the same effort by news orgs and others with reasonably impartial leanings to identify the sources of the other bombs dropped on civilian areas in Gaza.

I'm not one who conflates Palestinians in Gaza with Hamas, or believes it's soley their responsibility to get out of the way of Israel's defensive assault on the city.

It's a wonder to me how so much reporting has been done on this one explosion, and virtually nothing reported by major news orgs on Palestinian casualties - at least nothing as comprehensive as the analysis of this one, apparently errant bombing.

It's not as if we can't see the deliberate explosions in Gaza coming from Israel. Is this omission because it's assumed the civilians are somehow complicit?

Or is it a timidity that they'll be attacked as pro-Hamas for even suggesting the civilians in the way of Israel's reprisals have a right to live, or too afraid of U.S. public backlash to portray Palestinians with the same sympathizing manner as they have Israel's citizenry?

I'd think that the evidence that Hamas had callously lobbed a bomb at Israel that hit the parking lot of the hospital in Gaza would generate some sympathy for the Palestinians killed, but all of the focus is on making certain Israel isn't blamed.

That's worthwhile, in an effort to slow the inflaming of the wider Arab community in response. But there looks to be a serious disconnect between the focus on this one errant missile, and the deliberate bombing campaign going on right now by Israel into Gaza which is also killing Palestinians.

Most all of the focus on that explosion outside of the Gaza hospital is on blame, not on those reported killed. If the concern was for the Palestinians killed, there should be a similar concern for the rest of the civilian deaths in Gaza.

If Hamas is to be assigned responsibility for deaths, there also needs to be more than just an assumption that civilians caught in the way of Israel's missiles (many U.S. supplied missiles) are mere casualties of war.

The dearth of coverage of their plight underneath of the Israeli defensive assault on Gaza is a tacit acknowledgement that the media has adopted the Israeli attitude that these deaths are merely collateral consequences of Hamas' original attacks.



I don't now, maybe the tide of coverage will turn...

TODAY @TODAYshow 2hrs ago
@NBCNews’ team in Gaza say last night saw the most intense Israeli airstrikes since Israel began its bombing after Hamas took hostages and killed Israelis. Medical officials in Gaza say it was the deadliest night with hundreds of Palestinians killed. @richardengel reports.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion
“The acceptance of large-scale bombing of Gaza and of a ground invasion likely to begin soon suggests that Palestinian children are lesser victims, devalued by their association with Hamas and its history of terrorism,” writes @NickKristof .

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2. Yes to many of your questions

Ignoring the horrific terror of the bombing of Gaza is to be expected of the media

The bombing is creating more future Hamas members

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3. I don't think there's any doubt about who bombed the other parts of Gaza.

Israel will tell you openly that they bombed the other places because they think that Hamas is hiding out there.

The hospital explosion made big headlines because it seemed like it might have been a particularly heinous act. Many people, including governments, NGOs, etc. immediately seized on it as evidence of Israel's moral bankruptcy. In that setting, given Israel's denial of responsibility, it feels important to find out whether that was the case or not.