Search crews in Gaza on Monday found the remains of a Palestinian who was killed during the recent Israeli assault on the Strip, a Ma'an reporter said.More interesting is what Ma'an does not say.
The body of Zuhdi Abd al-Hamid Abu al-Rus, 22, was found under the rubble of a destroyed mosque in al-Nuserat.
Israeli forces targeted the mosque on Aug. 9.
The mosque that al-Rus was found in is the Al Qassam Mosque, the same one where three senior Hamas members were meeting at 3:30 AM that day - and it wasn't to pray. They were cynically using the mosque as a terrorist command center.
And, no surprise, in Arabic al-Rus is referred to as a "mujahid martyr,"
His body was draped in a Hamas flag at his funeral, which was quite large.
Even now, Arab media are trying to make it appear that the primary victims in Gaza were civilians. It just isn't so.
(Of course, so did Western journalists like Donald Macintyre reporting on the same mosque attack, forgoing the least amount of fact checking.)