The Palestinian Authority (PNA) has released a document in which it claims that a preliminary investigation by Israeli police found that Israel “falsified” media material to justify its attack on Gaza. In a statement from its foreign ministry, the PA said Israeli helicopters bombed Israeli civilians on October 7 during the Supernova music festival. The statement questions Israeli reports of that day’s atrocities and the footage documenting the destruction and fires that devastated the area near the Gaza border, and calls on all media outlets, UN officials and national leaders to follow up on Jewish media publications and to check.
The statement comes following US President Joe Biden’s words that the “revived” Palestinian Authority should govern the Gaza Strip after the war, something Israel has repeatedly rejected as it has always refused to support Hamas’ attack on January 7. October, recalls the Times Israel. The claim that an IDF helicopter that arrived at the festival site near Reim on October 7 may have killed some Israeli civilians was first made in Haaretz based on an anonymous Israeli police source and was widely picked up by the Arab press , but taken out of context. The police then announced that the investigation focused solely on the activities of their men and not those of the IDF; For this reason, there is “no evidence of harm to civilians due to the air activities there.” The army had previously said it would investigate the October 7 attacks after the war.