Eyewitness testimony reported Wednesday by Al Jazeera accused Israeli troops of massacring forcibly displaced women and children sheltering at a school in northern Gaza,
The Israeli soldiers came in and opened fire on them," one unidentified witness said. “They took all men, then entered classrooms and opened fire on a woman and all the children with her,” including “newborn children.”
“The Israeli soldiers executed those innocent families point-blank,” she added.
A man who arrived at the scene after the alleged mass murder told Al Jazeera that “we found dozens of dead bodies in the classrooms.”
“There is no sign of any missiles or shells,” he added. “All those who were in the buildings were executed from point-blank. The Israeli soldiers opened fire on them. Many families came searching for their children. They found them all killed. They were all killed, executed at gunpoint.”
Normal country behavior.
As of press time, the alleged massacre had not been independently verified.
It is irresponsible to publish such serious accusations without verification.
Hey sorry, I’m just a bit curious about when you developed this strongly held view as it seems at odds with your previous posts?
Like for instance here where you readily accepted Israel’s claims about Ibrahim Biari being in the refugee camp they bombed without independent verification?
I’m guessing some profound and enlightening experience in this past month has convinced you to be more critical of news sources and your previous comment has nothing to do with your support of Israel’s actions such as your genocide denial or making excuses for why bombing a refugee camp was actually okay.
It just feels like your comment was made in bad-faith here, but I’m sure it was well intended.
What would independent verification mean on this? Who would qualify as independent that could reach the scene and evaluate it? At some point you can’t just decide that since the invading and allegedly responsible power doesn’t allow international investigations then no potential crime can ever be responsibly reported.
I watched the video from Al Jazeera. There are blurred sections, but at no point does it show blood or anything that is unambiguously a human body. I don’t expect that corpses with gunshot wounds would be broadcast on TV, but that still leaves commondreams.org with no evidence beyond several brief interviews filmed by Al Jazeera. I do expect that if this event took place, impartial news agencies would have access to uncensored images of the aftermath. I’m going to wait and see if the New York Times publishes something.
There are blurred sections, but at no point does it show blood or anything that is unambiguously a human body.
So, what you’re saying is that there’s enough ground to believe that this news organization, Al Jazeera, has fabricated dead bodies. The journalist team blurred a pile of puppets or something and went on-air, lying they’re human bodies. That’s an interesting take…
Alright, I’m out. I have nothing more to say to you.
Sounds 100% like what AJ would do.
What a bold military strategy! Kill the Hamas insurgents while they’re still children at school before they’ve ever handled a weapon! Brilliant!
Yes maybe they did. But you know what? They didn’t rape them to death.
It think it’s a bit too soon to joke about that.