NBC Touts Palestinian Teen Praising 'Justified' Hamas Terror Attacks on Israel

Kyle Drennen | July 30, 2014
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

In a report for Wednesday's Today, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel – who on Monday fretted that Hamas would get "nothing" out of a cease-fire deal with Israel – highlighted a Palestinian teenager celebrating the terror group's attacks: "In Gaza, many see these attacks as justified. 16-year-old Farah Bakkar has developed a following online after live tweeting as [Israeli] bombs fell....Farah never supported Hamas before, but does now."

A sound bite ran of Bakkar proclaiming: "When I see the [Hamas] rockets getting to Israel, I start loving them more and more and I pray for them."