The Days of Rage continue over at CBS News’s Middle East bureau, as its correspondents continue to endure having to report on Israel’s continued stacking of Iran-linked terrorist mastermind bodies.
Watch as correspondent Debora Patta is forced to rattle off the deaths of three terror leaders in a little over a minute.
CBS EVENING NEWS
8/1/24
6:37 PM
DEBORA PATTA: Amid calls for revenge, thousands turned out to mourn the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Leading the prayers, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has vowed a harsh punishment in response. Hamas says an Israeli strike is to blame, but The New York Times reports a bomb was smuggled into this house two months before the assassination. Israel has not claimed responsibility, even though just a few hours before Haniyeh was killed, he freely admitted to taking out a Hezbollah commander, Fouad Shukr, who was buried in Beirut today. Speaking via video link because he’s in hiding, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised to avenge Shukr’s death, saying Israel should expect rage and revenge on all fronts. Instead, Israel claimed another win today. The military announced it had killed senior Hamas leader Mohammed Deif over two weeks ago in Gaza.
Any day you have a mourning Ayatollah Khameini is a good day, in my book. But the report reflects the anger and sorrow of streets in such places as Teheran and the West Bank.
After cataloging the dead terrorists and conveying the threats of both the Ayatollah and his lackey at Hezbollah, Patta describes the attack that killed Deif, lacing it with the amount of civilian casualties including children. A first attempt at emotional manipulation, given that there is no condemnation of Hamas, which notoriously embeds around civilians.
The report closes with lamentations for the ongoing hostage negotiations. If only Netanyahu hadn’t killed the folks who ordered the hostage-taking in the first place.
Any more dead terrorists and CBS will come undone.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on the CBS Evening News on Thursday, August 1st, 2024:
NORAH O’DONNELL: Well, today Israel announced a key architect of the October 7th attacks is dead, 300 days after Hamas killed nearly 1200 people in Israel and took hundreds more hostage. Tensions in the region are on the rise with Iran and its terror proxies vowing fierce revenge on Israel for the recent killings of senior leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah. CBS's Debora Patta reports from East Jerusalem.
DEBORA PATTA: Amid calls for revenge, thousands turned out to mourn the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Leading the prayers, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has vowed a harsh punishment in response. Hamas says an Israeli strike is to blame, but The New York Times reports a bomb was smuggled into this house two months before the assassination. Israel has not claimed responsibility, even though just a few hours before Haniyeh was killed, he freely admitted to taking out a Hezbollah commander, Fouad Shukr, who was buried in Beirut today. Speaking via video link because he’s in hiding, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised to avenge Shukr’s death, saying Israel should expect rage and revenge on all fronts. Instead, Israel claimed another win today. The military announced it had killed senior Hamas leader Mohammed Deif over two weeks ago in Gaza. He’s one of the October 7th masterminds who’s been on Israel's most wanted list for decades, and reportedly had survived seven other assassination attempts. Hamas claims he survived this one, too. Israel says it was a precision strike. More than 90 people were also killed in that blast. Among them children. Just last week, there was renewed hope for a hostage deal, but after these twin assassinations, that has given way to fears of a wider regional war. Today marks 300 days of captivity for those taken hostage in Gaza. The nationwide protests families and friends said it had been 300 days of abandonment. Norah.
O’DONNELL: Hmmm. Debora Patta, thank you.
