Propaganda Studies. (Israeli propaganda presented as news item)
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In case anyone is in any doubt about the systematic, shameless pro-
Israel bias in the corporate news media, we advise you to have a read
of the following "news" item. ....
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/six-palestinians-killed-in-west-bank-gaza-3318868
Six Palestinians killed in West Bank,Gaza Published: 8:51PM Saturday
December 26, 2009
Source: Reuters
At a glance...
Israel says kills three Palestinians in GazaTroops shoot dead three
more Palestinians in West BankWest Bank dead were members of Abbas's
Fatah movement
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Source: Reuters
Israeli soldiers drive a mobile artillery unit as the sun sets over
the central Gaza Strip
Israeli soldiers killed six Palestinians on Saturday in the occupied
West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the bloodiest violent outbreak in
months.
Three of those killed belonged to a militant group within the Western-
backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement Israel
accused of perpetrating a roadside shooting that killed a Jewish
settler two days earlier.
An official in Abbas's government accused Israel of a "grave
escalation". A militant leader threatened revenge, charging Israel
would now "open the gates of hell."
Israeli armoured vehicles entered the West Bank city of Nablus before
dawn, when soldiers surrounded homes where members of the al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades, a militant group of Abbas's Fatah group, were
inside.
The troops shot dead three militants suspected of killing the settler
who ignored orders to surrender, spokesman Major Peter Lerner said.
The militants had not shot at the troops but soldiers had acted
assuming each was "armed and dangerous," Lerner said.
One of the dead was found holding a gun and the wife of another had
been wounded in the leg.
In Gaza, soldiers shot and killed three Palestinians near a border
fence they suspected of trying to infiltrate from the Hamas-ruled
territory. A Hamas security source said the three were shot as they
collected scrap metal.
The violent upsurge threatened to derail Western-backed security
cooperation forged between Abbas's police force and Israel, and
potentially tip a Palestinian power struggle against his Fatah
movement, in Islamist Hamas's favour.
It also pointed up the risks of stalled U.S.-backed peace talks,
frozen since a three-week Gaza war whose first year anniversary falls
on Monday, December 27 and in which 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis
were killed.
'Blood and fire'
Some Palestinians protested that Israel had not asked Abbas's forces
to arrest the militants. Lerner said the militants had violated
pledges to refrain from violence.
More than 10,000 Palestinians attended funerals for the militants in
Nablus where businesses closed their doors answering calls for a
general strike.
Abu Mahmoud, a spokesman for the militants, urged a response of "blood
and fire" against Israel saying its "crime will not go unpunished,"
and would "open the gates of hell."
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad accused Israel of having staged
an "assassination" that could torpedo already stalled efforts to
resume peace negotiations.
"This is a sad day for Palestinians," Fayyad added, also voicing a
hope "we would not be dragged into a circle of violence, chaos and
instability."
Nabil Abu Rdainah, an aide to Abbas, told Reuters: "This grave Israeli
escalation shows Israel is not interested in peace and is trying to
explode the situation."
The settler, a father of seven, was the first Israeli killed in a
Palestinian attack in eight months.
The death toll in Saturday's incidents was the highest of any Israeli-
Palestinian confrontation in West Bank land since before the Gaza
offensive, and the worst fatalities along the Gaza border since
March.
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