It was an irresistible story for Western media. A Gazan cameraman was working valiantly to bring the images of war’s brutality to the world from a war zone blocked to media access by the Israeli government. While he was performing his heroic task, violence hit home with a deadly blow. Ashraf Mashharawi got a call that his family’s home had been hit by a rocket, and he rushed to the hospital to find doctors trying to save his 12-year-old brother’s life. The life-saving measures were in vain. Mahmoud and one of Mashharawi’s cousins, who had been playing on their roof after being holed up in their Gaza home for days, both died in what the family claims was an attack from an Israeli drone. When I first read the story at CNN.com, it sounded odd that Palestinian parents had their children playing on a roof after a week-long air campaign, and that Mahmoud’s brother’s first instinct was to film the final suffering of his sibling. When one watches the video report CNN aired on the incident, the problems with the story become more clear: