Foul Play: Reuters’ Gaza Stadium Captions
Captions for a series of Reuters photos yesterday featuring a Gaza soccer field hit last month in an Israeli airstrike ignore the widely noted IDF report that the field was used as a rocket-launching site. Some of the photos and captions follow:
Palestinian security guards pray at Palestine soccer stadium, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike during an eight-day conflict, in Gaza City December 4, 2012. Eight days of Israeli air strikes on Gaza and cross-border Palestinian rocket attacks ended in an Egyptian-brokered truce agreement last month, calling on Israel to ease restrictions on the territory. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA – Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION)
A Palestinian girl looks at a soccer stadium, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike during an eight-day conflict, in Gaza City December 4, 2012. Eight days of Israeli air strikes on Gaza and cross-border Palestinian rocket attacks ended in an Egyptian-brokered truce agreement last month, calling on Israel to ease restrictions on the territory. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA – Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
A soccer stadium, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike during an eight-day conflict, is seen in Gaza City December 4, 2012. Eight days of Israeli air strikes on Gaza and cross-border Palestinian rocket attacks ended in an Egyptian-brokered truce agreement last month, calling on Israel to ease restrictions on the territory. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA – Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
One of the photos, and its tendentious caption, is featured at the MSNBC Photo blog.
CiF Watch, a CAMERA affiliate, has compiled many of the sources noting that IDF report that Hamas launched rockets towards Tel Aviv and Jerusalem from the stadium.
IDF graphic
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