(July 17, 2023 / JNS)
Killing children is terrible, as everyone knows. It follows that leveling false charges of child-killing against a nation in an influential newspaper is also reprehensible and should be forthrightly corrected. In two stories, on July 5 and July 6, 2023 Wall Street Journal reporter Stephen Kalin injected that libel into his coverage of Israel’s military action in Jenin, citing a Palestinian Health Ministry source. But the Journal has thus far failed to correct the false claims.
Kalin asserted (in “Residents Return to West Bank Camp as Israel Ends Two-Day Assault” and “What Is Happening in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza? What to Know about the Conflict”):
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“Twelve Palestinians, including militants and at least five children, were killed during the operation and 140 wounded, including 30 in serious condition, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.”
In fact, there were no “children” killed according to the normal understanding of what a child is, and the depictions of those killed in these events in other mainstream publications. Most people would assume “children” are not 16- and 17-year-old teenagers affiliated with U.S.-designated terrorist groups who were killed in violent clashes with Israeli forces.
Photos of the young men show some sporting the headbands of the terrorist groups they’re affiliated with, and all holding guns.
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