Originally Posted by
langleybaston
Agreed: see my #155 above regarding IAF debris ........... taking a long time to produce ANYTHING from the explosion, is it not?
They won't bother.
It's the same old song and dance they've always performed, playing the press like cheap fiddles in order to drive news of their own atrocities off the front pages and lead stories until it's a game of "proportional numbers". They'll soon be onto something new and bigger whether it be opportunistic or staged and the press they allow to operate in their territory will play along (or they won't be there). The more desperate Hamas and their ilk become to stave off an IDF ground operation the more inflated the uncorroborated claims of killed and wounded numbers from IAF airstrikes, real or imagined, will be.
They will also claim an impossibly high ratio of young child casualties to the point you'd think the IAF's main target were kindergartens and birthday parties for 5 year olds. Lots of choreographed images of young males running into hospital entrances while carrying unbloodied-but-flopping children while other crowds of young males (who just happen to hang around hospital entrances) express lots of anguish will be shown . Others mugging for the cameras. All scenes that just happen to try and elicit the highest levels of sympathy and victimhood possible. They've been caught out in the past staging these types of scenes for willing media, and that wasn't even when their very existence was on the line.
The hospital explosion story will give way to something new just like the flatbed truck did to the hospital, the truck supplanting the story about an imaginary convoy of 23 ambulances that supposedly got destroyed. Somewhere in there they were claiming the IAF was dousing them with Willie Pete. They're throwing everything against the wall and hoping something sticks.
Hamas has 300,000 IDF troops filled with righteous anger at their doorstep, their backs against the wall, and a death sentence hanging over their heads. They will do and say anything to get the world's sympathy while "martyring" as many as their own as necessary to save their own skins, not unlike claims by certain Germans to the world press in Feb/Mar '45 of 200,000 dead in Dresden and the city having no military targets.
2 of the latest confirmed victims slaughtered in the Hamas attack are the 12 year old autistic girl and the disabled girl with cerebral palsy. Every time news of unmitigated savagery like this hits you can predict, as sure as the sun rises, another uncorroborated claim from an "official" source in Gaza re an IAF bombing that is supposedly a war crime/against humanity/etc..