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SvennoJ on 06 June 2024
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‘Why did they bomb us?’

Imad al-Maqadmeh, a wounded Palestinian boy, says his father was killed in the Israeli attack on the UN-run school.

“What did we do? There are no armed people in the school. There are children playing. We play together … Why did they bomb us?” he said, his face bruised and bleeding.

In images of the dead laid out at the hospital surrounded by wailing mourners, bodies were mostly wrapped in shrouds or carpets, making it impossible to determine from video if they included non-combatants.

As people at the school cleared rubble from bloodstained classrooms, survivor Huda Abu Dhaher described waking up to the sound of missile blasts. “People’s remains were scattered inside the yard and outside.”

Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the government media office, rejected Israel’s assertion the UN school in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, had hidden a Hamas command post.

“The occupation uses … false fabricated stories to justify the brutal crime it conducted against dozens of displaced people,” Thawabta said.


Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli attack on the UN-run school

Even if there were Hamas members sleeping there, assassinations are not legal warfare. By the IDF's logic everyone in Israel is a valid target for Hamas (bar the Ultra Orthodox) since the mandatory 24 to 32 months military draft makes everyone a member of the IDF. By Israel's logic, Oct 7 was legal warfare. (Of course it wasn't, yet that's the logic the IDF and the USA are pushing to justify these kind of strikes)


Israeli army spokesperson chides media for ‘falling for Hamas tactics’

Rear-Admiral Daniel Hagari lambasted the media for not reporting that Hamas operates in schools, hospitals, and mosques after the deadly attack on a UN shelter.

“In the last months alone, Hamas wages wars from schools and hospitals. Hamas hopes that international law and public sympathy will provide a shield for their military activities, which is why they systematically operate from schools, UN facilities, hospitals and mosques,” said Hagari.

“Sadly, we saw some media outlets fall for Hamas’s tactics yet again before checking the facts.”

Earlier, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller noted: “We’ve seen the claims that 14 children were killed in this strike and certainly when you see – if that is accurate – that 14 children were killed, those aren’t terrorists.”

So far we only have proof of the IDF using schools and hospitals in Gaza as military outposts. Zero evidence of Hamas fighters operating from schools or hospitals. The media isn't falling for your lies anymore. (Well some of the media at least)






Press activists slam attacks on reporters at Jerusalem Day march

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the harassment and assault of journalists during the Jerusalem Day flag march, urging Israel to protect reporters.

During the march, which commemorates the June 5 capture of East Jerusalem by Israeli forces in the 1967 war, Israeli settlers and far-right protesters attacked Palestinian freelance journalist Saif Qwasmi, who contributes to local agency Al-Asiman News, and Israeli journalist Nir Hasson, a reporter for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, CPJ said in a statement.

“Israeli security forces stood idly by while protesters harassed and assaulted Palestinian and Israeli journalists reporting on the march. Not only did they fail to do their duty, but they blamed journalist Qwasmi for protecting himself,” CPJ programme director Carlos Martinez de la Serna said.

The group urged Israel to probe the incidents and hold those responsible to account.

The Israeli government has faced criticism from human rights and press advocates for the killing of more than 100 journalists and media workers in its war on Gaza and for its ban on Al Jazeera operations in Israel.