At least nine people, and by some accounts more, were killed today when artillery fire hit a school on the outskirts of the Syrian capital city of Damascus. Both regime and rebels are confirming the strike, and Syrian state media is blaming an unnamed rebel faction for the strike.
The dead included one teacher and the rest were students. Early reports had put the death toll as high as 30, but were later revised downward. Most are now reporting either nine or 10 slain overall.
The state media reports said it appeared the school was hit with either a howitzer or some other artillery shell. The school is located in the Wafideen Refugee Camp, a camp for those displaced by the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, and does not appear to have had any conceivable reason for anyone to target it.
Tellingly, while rebel groups confirmed the attack they made no indication who they thought might be responsible. Generally speaking, if the regime is even suspected of such an attack such groups will loudly blame them.
Ditz trying desperately not to mention the culprits of their latest crime against humanity and somehow blame the legitimate government. Not even NYT manages to do that, take a break from our corporate Nazi media Ditz and try this link from SANA in english: http://t.co/TNTTjlZo
I regard Jason Ditz as a well educated hypocritical warmonging writer. If he do not want to lie directly and sometimes serve the antiwar expectations of readers he – as in this article – writes a speculation as the opposite of the headline into the last sentence (the least read part): "Generally speaking, if the regime is even suspected of such an attack such groups will loudly blame them." This is a speculation, but the headline is a conformed fact, which the normal US reader of course reads "Syrian army" shelled a school, since shelling means for them, it could be not the rebels – because mainstream media mostly does not report of heavy weapons on the side of rebels.
But this is a typical manipulation method used by any hired journalist.