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WHILE MUCH OF THE MEDIA CONTINUES TO IGNORE THE EVIDENCE AND WRONGLY BLAME ISRAEL FOR THE EXPLOSION ON THE BEACH IN GAZA THAT ALLEGEDLY KILLED SEVERAL PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS, HONESTREPORTING POINTS OUT THAT A GERMAN DAILY SUGGESTS THE WHOLE EPISODE IS PHONEY.

Aftermath of a Media Storm (HonestReporting)
German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung suggested that the Gaza beach incident had actually been staged by the Palestinians. Examining Palestinian cameraman Zakarija Abu Harbed's pictures of 10-year-old Huda Ghalia, the newspaper reported:

Harbed claims that Huda escaped serious injury, since she was bathing in the sea. In his photos, however, Huda is running around in dry street clothes. Harbed runs several minutes of the crying Huda and afterwards turns his camera to the dead and injured.

Suddenly a man beside Huda's dead father can be discerned, until now covered and motionless, who appears with a machine gun in his hand. In the pictures of the cameraman one can recognize both medics in green clothes as well as dozens of men, most with typical Hamas full beards, apparently securing pieces of evidence.

However one must ask, why the medics do not worry about the injured people and policemen do not secure the place. Have the Hamas men, as Israeli media quote Palestinian eye witnesses, removed pieces of evidence?

It is also strange why in Harbed's pictures we cannot discern a crater. The more cameraman Harbed is asked by Sueddeutche Zeitung in the telephone interview, the more he evades the issue. Was he at the scene of the incident before the outpatient clinic [personnel] arrived? Who are the civilians, who are cleaning the beach? Who is the armed man on the ground, who suddenly rises? If it was an Israeli army shell that killed the Ghalia family members, why don't the Palestinians show its fragments?

For a full translation of the article from German, click here.