As bad as the European media has been over the years with their biased reporting in Israel's conflicts with the Palestinians, we have seen a series of individual cases where European reporters have blown the cover off of Hamas' despicable actions in using their own people as human shields.
There is now a dispute over which side fired a rocket that struck at or near Gaza's Al Shifa hospital.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/middle-east-unrest/strikes-near-gazas-shifa-hospital-refugee-camp-kill-least-10-n166571
Now a Finnish journalist reports that Hamas was, indeed, firing rockets at Israel from the parking lot of Al Shifa hospital (above video).
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/01/finnish-tv-reporter-at-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-its-true-that-rockets-are-launched-here-from-the-gazan-side-into-israel-video/
Two things should be clear. Hamas is deliberately using its population as human shields as they fight from behind hospitals, schools and mosques.
Secondly, Israel is going to extraordinary lengths to avoid civilian casualties. I say extraordinary because I know of no other war in history in which an army warned citizens that they were going to hit a particular spot so they could get out of harm's way. However, Hamas is doing all it can to cause those casualties. We have seen a German film crew filming Hamas thugs literally beating people back into buildings and mosques after they had been warned by the Israelis to clear out.
We owe a great deal to those individual reporters who are telling the truth about what they see.
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