Beirut, October 19th. The falsity of the Israeli-American narrative about the Gaza Baptist Hospital bombing has been exposed here following today’s publication of an article by the pan-Arab network Al Mayadeen.
Experts and journalists used various evidence to refute the fallacy that “the absence of a hole” at the site of the attack absolves Tel Aviv of responsibility.
The experts explained that Israeli forces used American “JDAM” bombs, which are common munitions for direct attacks, in their attacks on the Gaza Strip.
In this sense, the analysts pointed out that the weapons used were air-explosive weapons, which did not create a hole, and whose impact was caused by fragments, shock waves and a fireball caused by the impact with the ground.
Therefore, the absence of a hole does not exclude Israel from responsibility, and the large number of mutilated bodies immediately after the incident shows the origin of the shrapnel and the effects of the explosion caused by the JDAM bomb, they explained.
In this regard, New York Times correspondent Aric Toler revealed that the video published by the official Israeli account “@Israel” and presented as evidence of “the moment when a rocket from the Islamic Jihad movement fell on the hospital” lasted a few minutes was removed.
To refute the Israeli narrative, the experts presented screenshots of a deleted tweet from Hanania Naftali, the digital adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which she said that Israel had bombed a Hamas terrorist base in a hospital in Gaza.
On October 17 itself, the Israeli media repeated a phrase from Security Minister Ben Gvir when he threatened that the only thing that would enter Gaza would be tons of explosives.
Incidentally, they confirmed another notable inconsistency in Israel’s official discourse: first, they released an alleged audio recording of resistance fighters as evidence that the cemetery behind the hospital was the rocket launch site; and later the radar map provided by Tel Aviv Armed Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari indicated that the missiles were fired from a point estimated to be five kilometers from the facility.
The first information published by the press clearly agreed that the massacre was the result of an Israeli bombing of the hospital, a refuge for thousands of displaced people from the bombed and destroyed areas in the Gaza Strip.
British BBC journalist Jon Donnison noted that because of the size of the explosion, it was not difficult to see that it could be more than one or more Israeli air strikes.
For his part, the correspondent of the American channel MSNBC spoke live from Jerusalem after the bombing and noted: “This number of victims is not normally associated with Palestinian rockets.”
In this message, the editor of the North American newspaper The New York Times, Megan Stack, stated: “The military is used to quickly denying any atrocities and violations it commits,” recalling Israel’s initial denials of the journalist’s murder. Shireen Abu Aqla in 2022.
Against this background, the Palestinian movement Hamas confirmed that Israel had contacted the directors of the 21 hospitals in the Gaza Strip and asked them to evacuate their staff immediately, as the centers are within the geographical area of operation.
The militia emphasized that before and during the Israeli bombing of the hospital, the Palestinian resistance did not fire rockets, the occupation sirens were not activated, and the Iron Dome did not function; Meanwhile, dozens of reconnaissance aircraft did not leave the skies over the Gaza Strip.
In this spirit, the priest of St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Jerusalem, Father Don Binder, wrote days ago in a post on his Facebook account about a first Israeli bomb attack on the facility, causing severe damage to the two upper floors and four Employees caused were injured.
Finally, to support the version of Israel and the Western press, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, without even going near the Gaza Strip, concluded that he trusted the information provided by his Ministry of Defense.
More than a thousand deaths, most of them children, women and the elderly, resulted from the attack on the Gaza Baptist Hospital, which is considered a clear example of Israel’s ongoing genocide and brutality against the Palestinian people. (Taken from PL).
Cover photo: Al Mayadeen