Shmucks! in Dhimmedia

I reported to you this morning that two Israelis were killed earlier today near Gaza. Then just now I see this headline:
Nine killed as Gaza militants storm Israeli border.

Naturally, I thought the fatality count had increased as more became known. Not so. The AFP can't be bothered - or doesn't want - to differentiate between unprovoked terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians, and IDF military actions in defense of the citizenry, to stop the terrorists from killing MORE Israelis.

I know, I know, it happens all the time in Dhimmedia. But it still pisses me off.

by Adel Zaanoun

GAZA CITY (AFP) - Two Israeli civilians and seven Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in an explosion of violence around the Gaza Strip border after Palestinian commandos stormed into Israel.

The attack came after an early morning gunbattle left an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian gunman dead, shattering a month-long lull that followed a bloody Israeli blitz on Gaza aimed at halting rocket fire.

The dead Palestinians included both militants and civilians, one of them a teenage boy.

The Israeli army said Palestinian fighters breached the border near the Nahal Oz fuel terminal, which provides Gaza with its fuel supplies, and moved into Israel under the cover of a barrage of 15 mortar rounds.

The militants killed two Israeli civilians in their 30s, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service, in what the army called a "failed abduction attempt."

A military official said the militants opened fire at short range at the two Israelis who were working at the terminal, located east of Gaza City.

Islamic Jihad and two smaller militant groups claimed responsibility.

The army said two Gaza militants were killed at the border, and a senior military official said the two were hit by tank fire as they fled back to Gaza.

Another air strike aimed at militants fleeing the border battle hit a vehicle carrying Islamic Jihad militants, injuring three.

Later, an Israeli air strike near a petrol station in Gaza City killed a Palestinian militant and a civilian, medics said.

Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza through Nahal Oz after the assault, and three Palestinian civilians were killed, including a 15-year-old boy, when an artillery round slammed into a nearby house, medics said.

Another three people were wounded, including a teenage girl, they said.

Accompanying this trash is an AFP photo, with much barbed wire in the foreground.

"Hamas militant attends the funderal of comrade"

Shmucks.

Whoops, did I mis-speak? Was that a "very poor choice of words"? No, I don't think so. Weak maybe, but not poor.