Few will have missed MSM reports of an alleged Palestinian attack on an Israeli School bus on 7 April 2007. It is the stuff of Israeli propaganda dreams and, as such, is guaranteed wide and totally one-sided coverage in the Western MSM. So, by way of providing a bit of balance, here are a few facts you are unlikely to see reported:
Brief resume of relevant events in the week leading up to the ‘Schools Bus attack’
- On Friday, April 1, Israeli forces assassinated a 24-year-old member of a Palestinian resistance group in Gaza.
- On Saturday, April 2, the Israeli air force assassinated three members of the group.
- On Tuesday, April 5, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in northern Gaza, reportedly unarmed and not part of any resistance groups.
- On Wednesday, April 6, at dawn Israeli forces bombarded Gaza in three air strikes, injuring four people, including two women (one of them pregnant) and a child.
- On Wednesday afternoon hundreds of children in Gaza participated in a march asking the international community to protect them against ongoing Israeli raids and attacks.
- On Wednesday night the Israeli Air Force bombarded several areas of Gaza, causing extensive damage; at least one resident was injured.
- On Thursday morning, April 7, the resistance group that had suffered four assassinations fired mortars at a nearby Israeli town, which injured two people on an almost empty school bus, the bus driver and the one student (16) who hadn’t already been dropped off.
- Thursday at noon Israeli forces bombarded Gaza, killing five people and injuring over 40.
- Thursday evening Palestinian resistance forces all agreed to a ceasefire to try to prevent the violence from increasing.
- Israel ignored this and continued its air strikes against Gaza, killing still more Gazans.
- In all, Israeli forces killed 14 people within 24 hours and injured dozens.
- Among those killed were a mother, her young daughter, and an elderly man.
- Total deaths surrounding the incident to date (Saturday 9 April): Palestinian 19; Israeli nil.
- Death toll includes 2 children, 2 women and 2 elderly men.
- 44 Palestinians have been injured including 13 children, 1 woman and 2 paramedics.
In the single preceding month of March 11 Palestinians were killed and over 40 seriously injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
To date in 2011, 48 Palestinians (including 7 children) have been killed in Israeli attacks. A further 153 have been injured, at least 40 of them children.
Al Mezan field report covering the violence in Gaza, 7-9 April, here
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