Cross-posted from CAMERA’s UK Media Watch
We recently posted about an attack, during the summer 2014 war, on a Gaza home which killed nearly a dozen members of the Siyyam family in light of a new IDF Military Attorney General (MAG) report which concluded that the family was NOT killed by the IDF. The MAG report concluded that an errant Hamas rocket was likely to blame.
We noted that reports in the Guardian andTelegraph shortly after the incident both blamed Israel for the attack.
Though both publications reported within the past few days on the conclusions of the new MAG report, neither updated their original stories to acknowledge this new information.
UPDATE: In August 2016 Israeli military prosecutors disputed media reports that 12 members of the Siyam family – including six children – were killed on July 21, 2014, by an Israeli airstrike. They concluded that no strikes were carried out in that area at the time by Israeli forces and suggested instead that the family had been killed by a botched Hamas rocket launch near the house.