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Source: https://www.camera.org/article/vox-explaining-the-news-and-improvising-on-the-facts/
Vox Just Makes Things Up
(CAMERA) Gilead Ini - In an Aug. 6 Vox piece about tensions between Israel and Gaza, Alex Ward told readers that the 2014 Gaza War began when "Israel started launching airstrikes on Gaza, and Palestinians responded by firing rockets into Israel." Ward is just making this up. Hamas had increased the frequency of its ongoing cross-border rocket attacks from Gaza, leading to Israeli reprisals. An even steeper increase in rocket fire prompted Israel's ground operation on July 8. The historical record is well-documented in news reports from the time. Vox is rewriting history. In essence, it is excusing Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by portraying them as retaliation for Israeli airstrikes that, in reality, were launched to stop the Palestinian attacks.