Pro-Palestinian demonstrators stage protest against Netanyahu
Protesters against the war in Gaza and US weapons sales to Israel gather outside the US Capitol before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers an address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, DC, US, on July 24
US Democratic party Representative Rashida Tlaib holds a protest sign reading ‘Guilty of Genocide’ during Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
While the protests were peaceful for the most part, of course the outliers are being blown out of proportion.
CNN fact checked one claim Netanyahu made, but they could easily make a list longer than they did for Trump's speech at the RNC
Fact check: Netanyahu falsely claims there have been ‘practically’ no civilian fatalities in Rafah, besides one incident
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/24/politics/fact-check-netanyahu-rafah-claims/index.html
In his speech to Congress on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that during his recent visit to Rafah, when he asked how many civilians were killed in Rafah, the commander told him “practically none, with the exception of a single incident where shrapnel from a bomb hit a Hamas weapons depot and unintentionally killed two dozen people.”
The “incident” Netanyahu referenced occurred in May and killed at least 45 people at a camp for displaced Palestinians. The airstrike injured more than 200 after a fire broke out at the camp following the strike, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and Palestinian medics.
And CNN still doesn't fact check the 'weapons depot' claim. Which was very likely another lie.
https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-officials-say-more-than-20-people-killed-in-israeli-shelling-on-tent-camp-amid-outrage-over-earlier-airstrike-13144571
He [IDF] claimed the munitions would have been too small to ignite a fire on their own, and that the military was looking into the possibility that weapons were stored in the area. It has not been possible to independently verify his claims. The fire triggered by the bombing also could have ignited fuel, cooking gas canisters or other materials in the densely populated tent camp housing displaced people.
That seems much more likely in a humanitarian encampment. Plus a lot of flammable material in the tents and the tents themselves.
In the same week of that strike, at least 29 Palestinians were killed in two separate Israeli attacks on displacement camps in Rafah, according to Palestinian and UN officials. CNN has seen firsthand video shot by stringers in Rafah and spoken to several health officials, humanitarian workers and eyewitnesses who have reported civilian fatalities as a result of Israel’s military assault on the southern city.
Civilians continue to get killed daily in Rafah, CNN still trying to downplay reality while doing the utmost minimum fact checking.
