CNN Withdraws Apparently Faked Video of CPR Attempt on 'Dead' Palestinian Child

Not that it ever really went away, but fake news is back in Gaza, and the worldwide media is being played.

The video purports to show the death and hasty burial of a cameraman's 12 year-old younger brother, one of two children allegedly killed on the roof of their home in rocket fire from an Israeli drone.

A seemingly pretty knowledgeable LGF commenter spotted what many inexpert readers who see the video will also catch (bolds are mine):

I’m no military expert, but I am a doctor, and this video is bullsh-t. The chest compressions that were being performed at the beginning of this video were absolutely, positively fake. The large man in the white coat was NOT performing CPR on that child. He was just sort of tapping on the child’s sternum a little bit with his fingers. You can’t make blood flow like that.

Furthermore, there’s no point in doing chest compressions if you’re not also ventilating the patient somehow. .... In a hospital, during a code on a ventilated patient, somebody would probably be bagging the patient during the chest compressions. And they also would have moved the bed away from the wall, so that somebody could get back there to intubate the patient and/or bag him. In short, the “resuscitation scene” at the beginning is fake, and it’s a pretty lame fake at that.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/01/08/they-never-learn-cnn-withdraws-apparently-faked-video-cpr-attempt-really