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hockeybub89 posted...

So this goes back to the insinuation that the media outlets that operated out of the building are literally exaggerating and lying.

King_Hellebuyck posted...

Weird how theres still no explanation as to why the AP lied or evidence of Hamas hiding in the media building

Have you guys ever asked yourselves why the press is even allowed to operate in an area controlled by a militant Islamist group?

During the Gaza war this summer, it became clear that one of the most important aspects of the media-saturated conflict between Jews and Arabs is also the least covered: the press itself. The Western press has become less an observer of this conflict than an actor in it, a role with consequences for the millions of people trying to comprehend current events, including policymakers who depend on journalistic accounts to understand a region where they consistently seek, and fail, to productively intervene.

When Hamass leaders surveyed their assets before this summers round of fighting, they knew that among those assets was the international press. The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearbyand the AP wouldnt report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas. (This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the APs Gaza bureau and threaten the staffand the AP wouldnt report it. (This also happened.) Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying. (This too happened; the information comes from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of these incidents.)

Colford, the AP spokesman, confirmed that armed militants entered the APs Gaza office in the early days of the war to complain about a photo showing the location of a rocket launch, though he said that Hamas claimed that the men did not represent the group. The AP does not report many interactions with militias, armies, thugs or governments, he wrote. These incidents are part of the challenge of getting out the newsand not themselves news.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/

Also Blinken confirmed that Israel has shared their intelligence with the US:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-has-received-more-information-israels-destruction-gaza-high-rise-blinken-2021-05-18/

This isn't even about the conflict anymore, you guys are just trying to protect your egos because you don't want to admit you knew little about this conflict and got duped by a terrorist organization.