The Turkish Anadolu Agency reporting on the Jerusalem vehicular terrorist attack reports the terrorist was a victim of Israel Police in a Twitter message, preferring to omit the fact he ran over pedestrians and killed a border police officer and left others wounded, some seriously.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry released the following statement. “The official Twitter of the Turkish news agency and untruthful reporting is to incite and stoke hatred against Israel. The journalist knowingly released false information and as such, veered from his job description and in essence, supports terror”.
Government Press Office Director Nitzan Chen has summoned the Israel bureau chief of the Turkish Anadolu Agency in the wake of a Tweet in which the terrorist responsible for today’s deadly attack in Jerusalem was described as a “Palestinian man shot dead by the Israeli police.” The bureau chief is instructed to report to Chen on Thursday morning, 13 Marcheshvan to explain his actions.
“Journalists who engage in incitement and who disseminate misleading information which is liable to put lives at risk are liable to have their Government Press Office credentials revoked” the GPO statement read.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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I’m waiting for the US state department to come out and say it was a “Trafic incident”. The same way they did with the original terror attach that killed the 3 month old and the other woman.