The major media have been reporting that those dastardly Israelis last Saturday bombed innocent Palestinian civilians just as they were saying their dawn — Fajr — prayers. Palestinians could be seen on all the major networks, reporting from the scene, claiming that the “bombs” (actually, three precision-guided missiles) fell as “they were just saying their prayers,” and that “people were blown apart as they were saying their prayers.” Such an image, of the innocents praying as bombs landed on them, spreading death, will certainly make people even more full of anti-Israel animus than they already are. But the media are wrong; those Palestinians were lying; the attack came at least a full 15 minutes after the Fajr prayers were over. More on the timeline of the prayers and the IDF attack on a Hamas command-and-control center located within the school-and-prayer hall compound can be found here: “Another lie: The Saturday Gaza airstrike was NOT during prayer – it was 15 minutes after prayers were over, Elder of Ziyon, August 11, 2024:
CNN says:
Gaza Civil Defense said people were performing dawn prayers at the Al-Tabi’in compound in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in the eastern part of Gaza City when it was hit overnight into Saturday.
NBC says:
The strikes hit the Tabeen school in Gaza City, including the mosque inside it, during dawn prayers.
BBC says:
The building also served as a mosque and the Israeli strike hit during dawn prayers, witnesses said.
The Independent reports:
At just past 4am on Saturday, Palestinian families displaced from other parts of Gaza, gathered for Fajr prayers at dawn inside al-Tabaeen school that had turned into a makeshift shelter in Gaza City.
Just before prayers were about to begin, the Israeli missiles tore through the congregation leaving bodies of worshipers “cut to pieces”, witnesses told The Independent.
Wikipedia Arabic says that the airstrike happened after 5 AM, and quotes one person saying it happened after the dawn (Fajr) prayers.
Before the Fajr prayer? During? After? Which is it?
According to multiple sources, the Fajr prayer time would have been 4:37 AM on Saturday in Gaza. It is a short prayer, which only takes 10-15 minutes in a mosque, and about 3-4 minutes when praying individually.
If the strike was shortly after 4 AM or shortly after 5 AM, no one would have been praying. The Gaza media office, health ministry and “eyewitnesses” are lying….
We know from both the IDF and witnesses to the Israeli attack that it took place about five minutes after 5 A.M. The Fajr prayers started at 4:37, and would have been over by 4:41, if the prayers were said individually in the prayer hall. However, if a imam had been present to lead the prayers, in what would then be considered to be a mosque and not merely a prayer hall, those prayers would still have been over by about 4:50. The Israelis, and others on the scene, claim that the attack took place about five minutes after 5 A.M. That means the attack took place at least fifteen minutes after the prayers were over. Why didn’t CNN, the BBC, or NBC know when the Fajr prayers took place? All their journalists had to do was consult a list of the times for daily Muslim prayers on that day, for every part of the world; they could easily find that information online. Instead, they simply repeated the story fed to them by Hamas, that the IDF attack took place during the prayers. It did not.
That’s one more way the media displays its readiness to blacken the image of the IDF. There are so many. When it comes to their coverage of Israel and the Jewish state’s war of self-defense in Gaza, the media have a lot of explaining to do.
fscarn says
“We know from both the IDF and witnesses to the Israeli attack that it took place about five minutes after 5 A.M. The Fajr prayers started at 4:37, and would have been over by 4:41, if the prayers were said individually in the prayer hall.”
Those prayers consisting of appeals to their Allah to destroy the evil Jews and anyone else who is not “rightly guided” (i.e., not a Muslim).
somehistory says
mozlums don’t tell the Truth. Anyone listening to the mozlums tell of something, are listening to lies; and if they quote the mozlums, they are repeating lies.
I saw a photo…supposedly of the aftermath of the strike by Israel…and it was of a little boy crying. It seems that only when they can say an adult mozlum was “martyred”…like the recent cases of the two hamas and the hezbollah ghoul…do they picture adults.
Using little kids as shields, and then showing photos of dead kids, or dirty crying kids is another weapon of the mozlums. But the barracks are full of adult mozlums.
They pray to a false god and in those words are the words of preying upon their enemies.
Huapakechi says
Were the secondary explosions responsible for most of the casualties?
RegT says
Good catch, and true if – as with numerous other mosques – the muslims were storing offensive weaponry there.
OLD GUY says
Wait a minute, Islam bombs, shoots, hacks up attacks christian and jewish people in churches everyday around the world. Where is the outrage for that. No sympathy for ISLAM.
somehistory says
I read this morning that some ‘church’ is going to stop using the word “church”….and we all know why. The word means congregation. But they have decided that church is offensive to some people.
somehistory says
“Church of England appears to stop using the word ‘church’ to sound more ‘relevant’: study”
FOX
CalvinsLutheran says
This Israel-hating world ? will certainly have all of the incriminating evidence needed against it to satisfy The God of Israel if He seeks it for this world’s condemnation to Eternal Hell. No vengeful unfairness will take place on The Day of Judgement whatsoever. Just simple playback and letting this world watch and describe out of their own mouths their determination to condemn Israel falsely at every opportunity will suffice. At this point this world seems to be in an orgiastic frenzy of opposition to Israel ?? at every turn. Nevertheless self-condemnation should be quite convenient for today’s non-believers. Get a load of that everyone: “DIY Judgement Day-No instructions required”