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Gabriele Barbati, Jerusalem Correspondent for
Radio Popolare Milano. Photo: GB
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On Twitter, Barbati, Jerusalem Correspondent
for Radio Popolare Milano, and a former reporter for Sky Italia, in Beijing,
said, “Out of #Gaza far from #Hamas retaliation: misfired rocket killed children
yday [yesterday] in Shati. Witness: militants rushed and cleared debris.”
He said, “@IDFSpokesperson said truth in communique released
yesterday about Shati camp massacre. It was not #Israel behind it.”
On Tuesday, the IDF released aerial photos
showing how a rocket from Gaza targeting Israel hit the Shati camp, run by the UNRWA, and Al Shifa Hospital, which has
become a de-facto Hamas headquarters, against international rules of war.
Barbati said he was unable to speak about the
Al Shifa hit, but he was certain that it was a Hamas rocket that hit the Shati
camp, and a witness saw militants rushing to clean the debris.
Blogger Elder of Ziyon, who praised Barbati for telling
the truth in a war where many journalists have been intimidated by Hamas, noted that “When Hamas made the area off limits to reporters, it was
cleaning the area from any debris that could show the truth.”
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An IDF diagram showing how four rockets from
Gaza hit the sea,
Israel, Shati and Al Shifa Hospital. Photo: IDF
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Elder of Ziyon said, “Every single report on TV
from Gaza should have this disclaimer: ‘Our reporters have been threatened,
implicitly and perhaps explicitly, by Hamas to only report one side of the
story.Viewers must not trust anything they are saying.’”
“There is an assumption of fairness in
journalism, a contract between the media and the viewers,” the influential
blogger said. “This contract has been broken, as far as I can tell, by nearly
every single reporter in Gaza in nearly every report, with a couple of rare
exceptions.”
Joshua Levitt, The Algemeiner, July 31, 2014
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