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Over the last two days, Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad coordinated to launch hundreds of missiles and other projectiles at Israeli civilians to cause maximum carnage. According to The Times of Israel Tuesday, the massive rocket attack was responsible for 108 Israeli casualties. But the Palestinian friendly broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) couldn’t be bothered to report the figure.
Monday evening was the first opportunity for the networks to report on the attacks and, at the time, ABC’s World News Tonight was the only one to rise to the occasion. But come Tuesday, none of ABC’s news programs (morning or evening) covered the attacks. NBC continued their complete blackout while CBS’s morning and evening shows found time to mention the attacks.
While CBS managed to cover the missile attacks, they ignored the massive casualty number. “In the Middle East tonight eight people are dead after a significant flare-up of violence between Israel and those living in Gaza,” announced anchor Jeff Glor at the start of the segment. But that death number only took count of the Israeli Defense Force reconnaissance mission that went awry deep in the Gaza Strip and sparked the latest round of attacks (7 Hamas militants, 1 IDF officer).
In his report, CBS international correspondent Charlie D’Agata’s only notation of the effects of the barrage on Israeli civilians was of one house that was hit with no casualties:
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