On Wednesday, Islamic Jihad's Palestine Today site gave details on a number of alleged attacks by terror forces against the IDF:
The Mujahideen of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, and the Mujahideen of the Al-Qassam Brigades were able to target an Israeli special force consisting of 10 soldiers holed up in a house in the fighting axis west of the city of Khan Yunis, with two anti-personnel shells and clashed with them with machine guns. Al-Qassam announced that the Mujahideen had confirmed that the force had caused deaths and injuries.Al-Saraya claimed responsibility for targeting an Israeli military bulldozer with an RPG shell, killing those inside it and setting it on fire, in the vicinity of the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Yunis.Al-Saraya published a brief statement in which it conveyed the confirmation of its mujahideen, after their return from the areas of clashes, that they were able to kill all members of an Israeli force of 7 soldiers, which was holed up in a residential apartment in the vicinity of Al-Hawouz near the Hayat School, west of the city of Khan Yunis, after targeting it with a “TBG” shell.
Earlier this week, Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida claimed Hamas had killed 15 IDF soldiers in the previous 24 hours.
Hamas also claimed this week to have destroyed 962 Israeli tanks during the war.
In the real world, three IDF soldiers have fallen this month.
Mainstream media ignore these obviously false statements by the terrorists. They know they are lies, so they almost never even mention their claims.
Yet when the same spokespeople claim hundreds of Gaza civilians are killed every day, the same media has no problem believing it. There is no skepticism. The media just adds "according to Gaza health officials" and pretend that they've done their jobs.
No, they haven't. If Hamas and the other groups are known to be liars - and the media clearly knows they are by only reporting their claims that align with the biases of the reporters and their editors - journalists should report that their statements are suspect.
By not reporting that Hamas and the other groups are openly and provably lying, they give more credibility to the Gaza casualty figures that have been universally accepted. And those are exaggerated just as much as the supposed IDF deaths are.
