Friday, July 22, 2005
As an update to the post below, The Next Muhammed al Dura? Updated., the New York Times has posted their own update to the story, this time indicating that a Palestinian man has confessed to the stabbing, and taking note that Palestinian media across the board have continued to report that the perpetrator was an Israeli, even long after it is known otherwise. The update is welcome, even though the original item should never have been reported as it was in the first place.
Israeli police said that the cousin said that the assailants were Palestinians, not Israelis, and Palestinian police said the suspect was from a family involved in a feud with the family of the dead boy, Yazan Muhammad Musa, who was stabbed 14 times, according to Dr. Musa Alayan of Rafidiah Hospital in Nablus...
(via Backspin)
The same Times report contains the following short item: "Also today, a Palestinian rocket aimed at an Israeli settlement in Gaza hit a house in a Gaza refugee camp instead, killing a boy, 10, and seriously wounding another child, 12, both form the Abu Ubada family, Palestinian medical officials said." Nameless kids, killed and wounded for no good reason demonstrating once again that the primary victims of the Arab war against Israel continue to be Palestinian Arab children.
