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| Shortly before a cease-fire went into effect in Gaza on Tuesday morning, a crew from India’s NDTV captured rare footage of Islamist militants quietly preparing to fire a rocket at Israel from a densely populated area of the Palestinian territory. | Shortly before a cease-fire went into effect in Gaza on Tuesday morning, a crew from India’s NDTV captured rare footage of Islamist militants quietly preparing to fire a rocket at Israel from a densely populated area of the Palestinian territory. |
| The video report, narrated by the correspondent Sreenivasan Jain and not broadcast until hours after he and his crew had left the Gaza Strip, appeared to show three men preparing a rocket launch site under a blue tent on Monday, covering the site with brush and leaving the area outside the journalists’ hotel. More footage, recorded 25 hours later, showed smoke from the rocket launched from that spot the next morning. | The video report, narrated by the correspondent Sreenivasan Jain and not broadcast until hours after he and his crew had left the Gaza Strip, appeared to show three men preparing a rocket launch site under a blue tent on Monday, covering the site with brush and leaving the area outside the journalists’ hotel. More footage, recorded 25 hours later, showed smoke from the rocket launched from that spot the next morning. |
| The video was notable because journalists have captured few images of the stealthy guerrilla fighters in recent weeks and because it appeared to show Islamist militants using a residential area to provide cover while they fire at Israel, putting civilians at risk as homemade rockets fly out and potential retaliatory strikes come back in. | The video was notable because journalists have captured few images of the stealthy guerrilla fighters in recent weeks and because it appeared to show Islamist militants using a residential area to provide cover while they fire at Israel, putting civilians at risk as homemade rockets fly out and potential retaliatory strikes come back in. |
| As the British television journalist Rageh Omaar noted last weekend, the lack of visual evidence of a militant presence in Gaza appeared to be the result of an intentional effort by militants to keep a low profile, and might have intensified the focus of the foreign media on civilian casualties. | |
| The video was posted online amid a rancorous debate about whether these guerrilla tactics used by Hamas from densely populated areas implicate the militant group in the deaths of hundreds of civilians killed by Israeli shelling in the past month. Some supporters of Israel say the video is evidence of a criminal disregard for the safety of civilians by the militants. The report was shared on Twitter by the Israel Defense Forces and by critics of the Western media. | The video was posted online amid a rancorous debate about whether these guerrilla tactics used by Hamas from densely populated areas implicate the militant group in the deaths of hundreds of civilians killed by Israeli shelling in the past month. Some supporters of Israel say the video is evidence of a criminal disregard for the safety of civilians by the militants. The report was shared on Twitter by the Israel Defense Forces and by critics of the Western media. |
| For his part, Mr. Jain rejected allegations of bias for or against either party, writing on Twitter that his crew had reported Sunday on what he called “nothing short of a massacre” by Israeli forces in the border town of Rafah, where shelling killed civilians in a shelter at a United Nations school. | For his part, Mr. Jain rejected allegations of bias for or against either party, writing on Twitter that his crew had reported Sunday on what he called “nothing short of a massacre” by Israeli forces in the border town of Rafah, where shelling killed civilians in a shelter at a United Nations school. |
| Another member of the NDTV crew, Niha Masih, was even more foreceful in her response to the stir over the video, comparing the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians by Israel to “genocide.” | Another member of the NDTV crew, Niha Masih, was even more foreceful in her response to the stir over the video, comparing the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians by Israel to “genocide.” |