French TV: Those Gazans Killed by the IDF We Showed You? Uh, Hamas Killed ‘Em in 2005

by Stephan Tawney on January 7, 2009

Oops! Their mistake. Totally innocent, I’m sure.

French public television network France 2 on Tuesday revealed they had aired photographs that allegedly showed destruction caused by the Israel Air Force during Operation Cast Lead, which were in fact taken during a different incident in 2005, one in which Gaza civilians were killed by an explosion caused by militants in the Strip.

The footage aired on Channel 2 on Tuesday afternoon showed dozens of dead bodies, including Hamas gunmen and citizens, which the channel said were killed by an IAF bombing raid on January 1st. It later came to light that the channel had instead aired footage of the devastation caused after a truck full of explosives blew up in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp.

The news editor for the station says that it was a “mistake”. Yeah, no really. Airing photos of people you claim are Gazans killed by Israel that were actually Hamas fighters and citizens killed by Hamas is one big “mistake”.



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