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Israel spreading fake news to divert attention from its ‘horrific massacre’: Government Media Office
Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel is spreading “fake news, lies and rumors” about targeting Palestinian leaders “in order to divert attention from the horrific crime in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis”.
Israel has claimed that this attack targeted Mohammed Deif, a senior Hamas military official.
In a statement, it called it a “failed attempt to justify the horrific massacre”. “The Israeli occupation has been practising a policy of deception repeatedly since the beginning of the war of genocide, in an attempt to cover up its failure and the crimes it commits against civilians and displaced persons, especially children and women,” the office said.
Palestinian Foreign Ministry calls on Israel’s allies ‘to awaken their conscience’
Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned Israeli “massacres” in Gaza’s al-Mawasi and Shati refugee camps.
In a statement issued on X, the ministry called on “the states supporting Israel to awaken their conscience and morals, and to stop obstructing international efforts to end the genocidal war” in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
At least 71 people are confirmed killed in south Gaza’s al-Mawasi area and at least 17 more in Shati near Gaza City in the north.
CNN's take
Israel targets Hamas military chief in strike Palestinian officials say killed at least 70 people
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/middleeast/khan-younis-strike-gaza-intl/index.html
Israel says it targeted Hamas’ military chief and an alleged mastermind of the October 7 attacks in an airstrike in southern Gaza which local authorities said killed at least 71 Palestinians.
Mohammed Deif – the leader of Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing – was targeted Saturday in Al-Mawasi, a displacement camp west of the city of Khan Younis, an Israeli security official told CNN.
The Israeli military said it in the process of verifying whether Deif was killed in the strike, who was targeted alongside the head of the Khan Younis brigade, Rafe Salama.
The strike left scenes of devastation in the area, where the Gaza Health Ministry reported at least 71 people killed and nearly 300 people injured.
The strikes hit an area where displaced people were sheltering, according to the ministry. Videos from the scene show locals and rescue teams trying to unearth several people still trapped.
Al-Mawasi has been designated by Israel as a safe zone for Palestinians fleeing the fighting raging in Gaza.
The Kuwait and Nasser Hospitals on the ground are now struggling to cope with the high numbers of dead and injured civilians coming in, the ministry said.
Hamas denied Israeli claims it had targeted Deif and Salama, calling the killings a “horrific massacre.”
“The occupation’s claims of targeting leaders are false claims, and this is not the first time the occupation has claimed to target Palestinian leaders, only for its lies to be exposed later,” a statement read.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received continuous updates on the Israeli strike on Deif, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Netanyahu will later on Saturday hold a situational assessment with Israeli security forces to discuss further steps, the PMO said.
Little is known about Deif. Thought to have been born in the 1960s, Deif is a bomb maker was behind a wave of four suicide attacks in 1996 that killed 65 people in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and other outrages intended to derail the peace process.
His full name is Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, but he became known as El Deif (the Guest), because, for decades, he stayed in different houses every night to avoid being tracked, and killed, by Israel.
Deif has been the target of Israeli assassination attempts before. A 2014 Israel strike killed his wife, seven-month-old son and three-year-old daughter.
In May, the International Criminal Court said it was seeking arrest warrants for Deif and other senior Hamas figures, saying they had “reasonable grounds” to believe they bore responsibility for the October 7 attacks, which saw around 1,200 Israelis killed.
It's working as usual, more focus on the claim to target Deif than the horrific massacre of 70 civilians and another 300 wounded.
The BBC is so far ignoring this event as well. (Still ignoring the killings of 4 staffers from UK based charity Al-Khair)
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cgv64vq5z82t
