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Media outlet: The Daily Telegraph
Date of publication or broadcast: April 29 2008
Journalist: Tim Butcher
Description: Brief piece reporting the deaths of a mother and four of her children in Gaza.

SHORTCOMINGS: DISTORTION OF INFORMATION

Four children die in Gaza shelling

Fighting claimed more civilian lives yesterday as four Palestinian children aged between one and five were killed with their mother when their home in Gaza was hit by a tank shell while they ate breakfast.

DISTORTION OF INFORMATION:
The journalist states that "their home was hit by a tank shell" without pointing out that Israel vehemently disputes this version of events. An IDF spokesperson made a statement on the day of the incident setting out Israel's view that the damage to the house where the Palestinians were killed, was caused by explosives carried by Palestinian militants nearby, when they were fired upon by Israeli forces.