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For hours on end, Israeli civilian centers saw well over 100 ballistic projectiles launched from the Gaza Strip rain down into their communities Tuesday (and the wee hours of Wednesday morning). The attacks constituted the largest assault on Israel by the terrorist organization Hamas since the start of the 2014 war. But if you were only getting your news from American broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) you probably wouldn’t know it was going on, since none of them reported it during their morning or evening shows.
According to The Times of Isreal and Haaretz respectively, Israeli civilians were subject to “over 70 rockets” and an initial “barrage” of “28 mortars” Tuesday alone. Lucky, most of the projectiles, including the mortars, were intercepted by the marvelous Iron Dome defense system. During the conflict, Israel’s air force had carried out some 30 airstrikes on Hamas targets in Gaza and five members of the Israel Defense Force were wounded by shrapnel from one of the mortars.
The dead silence from the liberal network news outlets comes after the three spent days siding with Hamas and condemning Israel for defending itself from their assault on the border. The networks actually mourned for the dead and for the “catastrophe” that was the existence of the Jewish state. Hamas’s coordinated effort was put into motion on the day the U.S. opening its embassy in Israel’s capital. And when Hamas admitted that 50 of the 62 killed were theirs, the networks didn’t say a word.
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