Readers of this @AP article on Pompeo's arrival in Israel are not fully informed about the situation in Gaza:
1. Incendiary balloons are not simply a bid to pressure Israel to ease the blockade but also part of a longstanding campaign of attacks on Israeli civilian and property.
1. Incendiary balloons are not simply a bid to pressure Israel to ease the blockade but also part of a longstanding campaign of attacks on Israeli civilian and property.
2. The blockade is maintained by Israel and Egypt together. This should be made clear to readers. While Israel controls land access from two sides and sea access from a third, any blockade depends on all four sides being tightly controlled.
3. If the issue really was purely the blockade, then Egypt would come under attack too. That Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza are targeting Israel alone gives the lie to that theory.
Readers deserve to know.
Readers deserve to know.
4. Possibly most important of all, saying that Hamas "took control" of Gaza in 2007 whitewashes what actually happened: It staged a bloody coup, throwing Fatah members of buildings to their death, and with both sides killing innocents and combatants alike until Hamas prevailed.
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