Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister explains to al-Jazeera English that Palestinians from Gaza are not "legitimate journalist." (Video: al-Jazeer English)
After a second Israeli attack on a media building in two days, this time killing two journalists, the spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister, Mark Regev explains to al-Jazeera English that because the journalists were Palestinian the Israel military considered them legitimate "targets." Regev's remarks were made just a few hours after the November 19, 2012 bombing of al-Shuruq Tower and another building used to house the offices of several media outlets, including both Palestinian and international networks.
Speaking to al-Jazeera, Regev said, "We took out the target that we wanted to take out." When pressed by al-Jazeera over the injuries of eight journalists the previous day, where one lost his leg, Regev continued,
Oh you're talking about... oh first of all maybe we have a discussion about who is a journalist and if you'll allow me I will elaborate on this. There is the al-Aqsa station, which is a station that is a Hamas command and control facility, just as in other totalitarian regimes; the media is used by the regime for command and control and also for security purposes. From our point of view that's not a legitimate journalist.Al-Jazeera's correspondent then followed-up by asking, "So what are you saying? That a local Arab journalist life is any less than an internationalist journalist?" Apparently for Regev, yes, in Gaza there are no legitimate Palestinian journalists, only targets.
Comment: Debka Files is connected to Israeli intelligence. Its primary purpose is not to inform the public but to spread disinformation and propaganda - always under the pretense that intelligence sources provide validity.
In this case it is easy to catch the lie. For starters, Netanyahu has been eager for a while to start a war on Iran, so it was more or less expected that Israel would try to link the attack on Gaza (or anything for the matter) to Iran. Second, it does not make sense for Iran to give Israel and the US an excuse to bomb them, as that would be remarkably suicidal.
But lets look at the Fajar-5 (or Fajr-5) rockets. According to wikipedia these are the specifications: Are we supposed to believe that rockets which are more than 6 meters in length and which require a 10.45 meter launcher, and weighing some 16,000 kg (including the system), have been smuggled into Gaza through the tunnels? Gaza is under seige and under constant Israeli surveillance. How big do you imagine smuggling tunnels to be, and how easy do you think it is to carry supplies through them? Even if the rockets were dismantled, how many of them do you think could be succesfully delivered, reassembled and launched, and how much manpower and time would that require?
If you ask us, we would be surprised if they got one rocket operational after a year of taking a couple of screws at a time, and very lucky if it actually flew. It is interesting that the supposed Fajr-5 rockets launched to Tel Aviv either fell on the sea, were shot down by the Iron Dome, or hit some unspecified street without confirmed damages - depending on which version of the story you got.