Associated Press Boosts Claims of the Israeli Military

During Israel's three-day assault on Gaza starting on August 5, Israeli officials tried to claim that five children who had been killed were the victims of an errant rocket fired by the Palestinian resistance. Now Israel have admitted that the children were killed by a missile fired by the occupation forces.

The Associated Press published an article echoing claims of the Israeli military, asserting that almost a third of the dead in Gaza may have been the victims of "misfired rockets" from Palestinian positions. Lowkey looks into the journalists who used the Associated Press to lend credence to the claims of the Israeli military.

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