Al Jazeera New Evidence Refutes Israel Claims About Gaza Hospital Bombing Killing 500

Critics say it’s the latest false narrative and Israel has a long history of denying responsibility for deadly attacks

Al Jazeera’s digital investigative team has released video footage from their live streams that says it disproves Israel’s claim that the attack on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital was caused by a failed rocket launch.

Despite carpet bombing Palestinian civilian areas in retaliation for Hamas’ attack, the IDF says Islamic Jihad is to blame for the killing of hundreds of people in an airstrike at the Gaza City hospital on Tuesday night which has rightly shocked the Muslim nations and the international community.

It’s the deadliest strike since war broke out between Hamas and Israel on October 7th, but many feel a day after the deadly blast, President Biden was premature in supporting Israel’s assertion it had ‘nothing’ to do with the attack.

“Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you,” Biden said during his visit with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday in Tel Aviv yesterday.

Despite American and Israeli intelligence claims the explosion was due to the firing of a stray rocket by Palestinian Jihad fighters, there’s extreme skepticism from many because of a history of denials for attacks and killings from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

In many instances, it was later proved culpable.

The IDF stated it does not target hospitals yet the UN and Doctors Without Borders say Israeli airstrikes have struck medical facilities, including hospitals and ambulances on many occasions.

An initial post on X sent by Hananya Naftali, a digital aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aroused suspicion. “Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza,” he wrote, but the post was almost immediately deleted.

Israel Accused Again of Using Controversial White Phosphorus

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused the IDF of using white phosphorus munitions in current reprisal attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, which Israel denies.

This is despite, tacitly admitting in the past to using the highly flammable chemical substance that ignites when exposed to oxygen and can enter the bloodstream, causing organ failure and severe burns, often down to the bone.

While it’s not explicitly banned by international humanitarian law, it’s strongly urged to avoid using such harmful substances on civilians. Human Rights Watch reviewed video evidence of multiple airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural locations along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Human Rights Watch documented the Israeli military’s use of the chemical in previous conflicts in Gaza, including in 2009.

In 2013, in response to a petition to Israel’s High Court of Justice regarding the use of white phosphorus in Gaza, the Israeli military stated that it would no longer use white phosphorus in populated areas except in two narrow situations that it revealed only to the justices.

Despite current and previous evidence, the Israeli embassy in France said this in a statement:

“In accordance with international law, this type of weapon is not used by the Israel Defense Forces against the terrorist group Hamas. We condemn with the greatest firmness the press and elected officials which report the use of white phosphorus by the IDF without any other proof than videos taken from another war.”

Israel’s False Claim that Hamas Beheaded Babies

Social media users unleashed a rampage after the Israeli government circulated graphic photos of children who had been burned or maimed, claiming Hamas beheaded 40 babies.

Correspondent for Israel-based i24NEWS, Nicole Zedeck, was reporting from the Israel-Gaza border at the scene of an attack when she made this claim live. She was later forced to clarify that she heard this from unnamed Israeli soldiers.

In two separate occasions in her report, Zedeck said about “40 babies at least were taken out on gurneys” and “their heads cut off, they said.”

While tragically babies did die in the deadly Hamas attack, this shocking detail created an international outcry. To make matters worse, CNN and President Biden repeated what many believe was a deliberately inflated narrative.

The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a longtime TV correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, was fatally shot while reporting on an Israeli military raid in the West Bank last year.

Israel initially denied it was responsible.

However, a report revealed she was deliberately and repeatedly targeted, along with her colleagues, despite being identified as a member of the press. It included a detailed digital reconstruction of the incident based on previously unseen footage recorded by Al Jazeera staff at the scene, in addition to witness testimony, open-source video, and a drone survey of the area, offering an accurate retelling of what transpired that day.

Abu Akleh was killed while covering Israeli army raids in the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. She was wearing a press vest and was standing with other journalists when she was killed.

The report directly contradicted the final conclusions of a review by Israeli authorities in which officials conceded there was a “high possibility” that Abu Akleh was “accidentally hit by [IDF] gunfire.”

In that report, Israeli officials claimed that the IDF soldiers were firing toward “suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen, during an exchange of fire in which life-risking, widespread and indiscriminate shots were fired toward IDF soldiers.”

Another Al Jazeera journalist, Ali al-Samoudi, was also wounded by a bullet in the back at the scene. Other journalists said there were no Palestinian fighters present when the journalists were shot, directly disputing an Israeli statement referencing the possibility that it was Palestinian fire.

The Killing of Palestinian Journalist Yaser Murtaja

He was a Palestinian photojournalist and one of nine civilians killed by Israeli snipers in Gaza in 2018.

Murtaja’s death directly opposed Israel’s official position that its sharpshooters only fire live ammunition at “instigators” among the crowds of protesters, in a “precise, measured way” to protect Israelis on the other side of the perimeter fence.

Images taken by Murtaja’s colleagues covering the protest, moments before and after he was shot, show that he was wearing a blue flak jacket marked with the word “PRESS” in white capital letters across his chest. The bullet entered his abdomen through a small opening at the side of the jacket.