On Monday, October 30, 2023 at 2:04:33 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
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Unfortunately, Israel has got lost in Hamas's Tunnels as soon as it started massive bombing. Past Lies certainly do not help.
"To make matters worse, the Israel government has a long history of making false claims and denying responsibility for atrocities
that later proved to be its doing.
In one example of many, in 2014, four boys younger than 13 were killed by Israeli airstrikes while playing by themselves at a beach
— three of them hit by a second blast while desperately fleeing the initial blast.
There was first a concerted effort among some pro-Israel social media activists to claim the explosions were due to a Hamas rocket
misfiring. The Israeli military initially claimed that “the target of this strike was Hamas terrorist operatives.” However, the beach was
near a hotel housing journalists for Western outlets, including at least one from The New York Times, who witnessed the killings. The
Guardian reported that journalists who visited the area in the aftermath saw no weapons or equipment and that kids regularly played
there.
Israel then investigated and exonerated itself. Peter Lerner, then a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, said that it had targeted a
“compound belonging to Hamas’s Naval Police and Naval Force (including naval commandos), and which was utilized exclusively by
militants.”
But The Telegraph, whose correspondent also witnessed the incident, reported that some of the journalists who had seen the bombing
said there had been “no attempt to interview them.”
One can see how this history plays out in the global upheaval over the Hamas claim two weeks ago that an Israeli missile struck a hospital
courtyard in Gaza. Israeli and American officials denied this, and asserted that the missile came from within Gaza. There were also initial
claims that 500 people were killed in the hospital blast, leading to headlines and global condemnations. Then the number was challenged,
leading to another round of uproar and back-and-forth.
It is certainly possible that the hospital may have been accidentally hit by a missile fired in Gaza — such misfires have happened. But Israel
bombardment has also caused large civilian casualties. The evidence isn’t conclusive either way, and the truth remains unknown."
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