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kentuck

(111,082 posts)
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 01:04 PM Aug 2014

Video coverage of bombings?

Why is it that every time Israel bombs a building in Gaza we see the smoke and damage on the news? But every time Gaza fires rockets into Israel we never see the damage, before or after? Is the media anti-Israel?

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kentuck

(111,082 posts)
1. Perhaps someone has a link?
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 01:13 PM
Aug 2014

to the rubble and damage done by the Hamas rockets? Surely someone took a photo??

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Showing holes in the ground in fields is not very helpful to the propaganda. ISD interceptors only
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 01:17 PM
Aug 2014

have to go after a fraction of rockets because the vast majority have clear unguided trajectories to fields and deserts, the whole region is mostly fields and deserts.

Kind of like throwing long distant big rocks over a fence into an ocean.

kentuck

(111,082 posts)
4. I heard on the news this morning that Hamas broke the truce...
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 01:24 PM
Aug 2014

...and Israel bombed them once again?

But I saw no photos of the bombings. Just curious why there is this discrepancy in reporting?

frylock

(34,825 posts)
5. because it was reported that the two rockets landed in empty fields..
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 01:42 PM
Aug 2014

see post #3.

on edit: here's a pic of the devastation:

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
6. omg, pleaseremember to put GRAPHIC in thread title before posting such awful photos
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 01:56 PM
Aug 2014

and yes, I am being sarcastic.

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
7. Ummm they usually land in the middle of nowhere and cause no damage or injuries.
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 02:04 PM
Aug 2014

And in 13 years the rockets have killed 31 people (3 in this last conflict) and caused almost no damage. The media talks about "Rockets raining down" and makes it seem as if hundreds are killed every year by them.

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