While the media does have a lot of things to answer for, they're hardly culpable in this incident.

If the media has blown it our of proportion, than that's different matter. The story doesn't seem to have made it outside the US though... well until Christ posted about it anyway.

Sorry, but USA is not the world. I read the news every day, and Tesla motors has never even come up in any way.

As you should. T was even near where I was typing so it must hve been divinely added.

I just want to say that I love John Oliver and want to gay marry him.

I heard about the Tesla catching fire & stock plummeting. Is Russia already America? I just fled Israel for that reason.

I'm not inside Israel. I hate what's going on there, and while Hamas are just terrorists, Israel could've fared much better. They've got a system to render Hamas offensive nearly useless, but instead of proving Hamas is useless they fight it. And blood is Hamas's fresh air.

Relevant & representitive stuff:
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This one a bit outdated, more dead from both sides & more fired. And well now there's an invasion.

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Another irony.

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And this is particularly true. Although I'd replace the word Palestine with Hamas.

IMO these three images sum most of the story.

Because ignoring rockets being thrown at you is a good idea?
Because being forced into hiding several times a day is fun and stimulates the economy?
And its not like it is even a 100% preventative measure. IIRC Iron Dome is able to intercept ~90% of the rockets it attempts to intercept, so if hundreds of rockets should hit you, tens of rockets will hit you. Likely one of the most important elements of preventing damage is actually just the alarms telling people when to hide.

That terrible story looks like it is concealing some information, like the reason the hospital was shelled. I'm not familiar with that particular case but:
1) Likely the hospital houses rockets, put there intentionally by Hamas to create bad publicity for Israel. If you don't believe they do that sort of thing then take it from UNRWA of all organizations...
2) You have to appreciate the dedication it takes to phone your target ahead of time to make sure they don't get hurt^[1]. And you have to despise Hamas for encouraging people to ignore those phone calls and create martyrs of themselves.
Generally speaking, Hamas is great at fabricating news stories (or more likely, the media just doesn't care because they can get a sensationalist headline or because they have an agenda). Some examples from the top of my head are:
1) Pictures of a woman wailing and crying over her dead child are published. Two days later videos show the child is alive and well.
2) Pictures of civilians badly injured in Gaza because of Israeli action are published. Pictures turn out to be of civilians badly injured in Syria because of Assad's actions.
3) An "interview" with a shocked and injured person are published in foreign media, lamenting the state of the palestinians and the cruelty of Israel. Except they fail to notice the interview comes from Israeli media, is in Hebrew, and is with a survivor of a terrorist attack...
That's not to say that all reports of hurt/dead civilians are fabricated; There are indeed civilian casualties, except:
1) "Civilian targets" are attacked because Hamas hides rockets and attack/smuggling tunnels and HQs inside civilian buildings (and often high profile buildings like hospitals). Sometime civilians are made to stay in places they know are to be bombed so they will become martyrs.
2) As in all wars there are some civilian casualties. Israel goes out of its way to avoid them (by calling ahead of time, by using more expensive, more sophisticated and less deadly weapons etc.), but it happens, and the civilian/militant death ratio is far far better than pretty much any war ever.

There is lots more to say about the nefarious things Hamas does, including how they subjugate their own population, but I won't go into it for now.
As for

Its a bitch. Even in "safe" places after a while you get paranoid whenever you hear a sound ascending in frequency, "is that an alarm?".
The political situation is also a bitch. On the one hand your enemy is Hamas whose express purpose is destroying you entirely. On the other hand your own prime minister is actively working to maintain the status quo since that's what helps him get elected

But enough venting for now.