Media Backlash

(Fox News) - Some Palestinian media are blaming Hamas and not Israel for the escalating violence in Gaza.

The Middle East Media Research Institute reports Bassem Abu-Sumayyah, the director of the Palestinian TV and Radio Authority, said, "Hamas blocked its ears... they should have had a little bit of political and security sense."

Hafez Al-Bargouthi, editor of the Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, says, "Why hasn't Hamas prevented the aggression and the massacre? How many times have we written... that these missiles [are] ineffective and contrary to the supreme national interest?"

And, Muwaffaq Matar, columnist for Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, wrote, "Will we learn the lesson, or are our leaders going to run away from bearing responsibility, as they usually do?"