The New York Times also visited the home and wrote:

…the damage was nowhere near severe enough to have come from an Israeli F-16, raising the possibility that an errant missile fired by Palestinian militants was responsible for the deaths.

And on Saturday night, the Telegraph reported:

The highly publicised death of four-year-old Mohammed Sadallah appeared to have been the result of a misfiring home-made rocket, not a bomb dropped by Israel.

But CNN correspondent Sara Sidner appears to have taken the family’s account at face value. She said, “Mahmoud quickly became a symbol of the war in Gaza.” Reporting from the site of the explosion, she said:

“While there were plenty of Hamas flags flying in this neighborhood, five hours after the attack, we saw no evidence here of military activity though it was impossible to look in every building.”

In a visit to the hospital on Friday, both the Egyptian and Hamas prime ministers used the boy’s death to denigrate Israel. The Telegraph reports Kandil was filmed lifting the dead boy out of an ambulance and said, “The boy, the martyr, whose blood is still on my hands and clothes, is something that we cannot keep silent about.”

Israel’s Channel 1 News on Saturday devoted a segment to discussing Sara Sidner’s CNN report, bringing in Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon to discuss the challenge Israel faces in bringing to the world not only its side of the story, but objective facts.

Watch the CNN report here:

via Dead Palestinian Boy Used as Symbol of Israeli Aggression Killed by Hamas | Video | TheBlaze.com.

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