TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Associated Press reporting into an Israeli attack on a Gaza Strip hospital that killed 22 people, including five journalists, raises serious questions about Israel’s rationale for the strikes and the way they were carried out. Among those killed was Mariam Dagga, who worked for AP and other news organizations.
Israeli forces struck a position well known as a journalists’ gathering point, because — a military official said — they believed a camera on the roof was being used by Hamas to observe troops. The official cited “suspicious behavior” and unspecified intelligence, but the only detail given was that there was a towel on the camera and the person with it — which the army interpreted as an effort to avoid identification.
AP has gathered new evidence indicating the camera in question actually belonged to a Reuters video journalist who routinely covered his equipment with a white cloth to protect it from the scorching sun and dust. The journalist, Hussam al-Masri, was killed in the initial strike.
The evidence calls into question why Israeli forces went through with the strike. Witnesses say Israel frequently observed the position by drone, including about 40 minutes before the attack, giving an opportunity to correctly identify al-Masri.
AP’s findings also reveal other troubling decisions from the Aug. 25 attack:
— Soon after the first strike, Israeli forces hit the same position again, after medical and emergency workers had reached the scene to treat the injured, and as journalists including Dagga had rushed to cover the news. The strike has raised accusations of a “double tap” — a type of attack intended to kill those responding to casualties and which experts in international law say is a possible war crime.
— Troops used high-explosive tank shells to strike a hospital, instead of more precise guided weapons that might have resulted in fewer casualties.
— In all, Israel struck the hospital four times, the AP found, each time without warning.
Their first suspiscion was that Israel attacked a hospital.
A hospital? Is there any hospital in Gaza that Israel hasn’t attacked?
The answer is actually no. Even the ones that remain semi-operational have all been attacked and damaged. They often target the generators and power supplies for said hospitals and clinics.
They’ve attacked most of the journalists, too. This attack was par for the course of Israeli terrorism.
Could it be because they’re a zealous ethnostate in the midst waging a genocide? Or perhaps there’s some other minute nuance being overlooked… I guess we’ll never know. A mystery for the ages.
This presmption that Israel is in the right until priven wrong that journalists seem to want to do or have to do is pure nonsense at this point. Israel is guilty of purposeful war crimes-- there is absolutely no question about that at all. The fact that governments wont say that yet is just bribery.
Why? Because they’re into the whole genocide thing. How? With the support of the western world’s governments.
With the support of the western world’s governments.
UK, Canada, France, and Germany have all banned arms sales to Israel.
Stop buying into the anti-West propaganda. This is America’s dog.
Meanwhile the East is actively supporting Russia’s genocide in Ukraine by shipping them weapons and fuel.
UK was literally just caught flying spy missions for Israel over Gaza a few days ago. And if they actually didn’t support Israel you wouldn’t go to jail for saying you support Palestine.
Why? Because Israel is a terrorist state that has no reasonable right to exist at the BEST of times considering it boils down to “My god said this is mine” and was created after a world war by idiotic Europeans. They have been emboldened for decades by funding their war machine and espionage.
They’re fucking terrorists and Nazis and they DO NOT CARE about any country other than their own which is why they routinely have their cowardly bunch of spies go everywhere and illegal steal people away because mah morals.
Fuck the entire country and every Israelite who doesn’t actively condemn them. Because there’s one word for a person who stands by and doesn’t stop a Nazi and the word is fucking Nazi.
