The Biden administration "must respond to the reported execution-style massacre of women, children, and babies," said the spokesperson of a U.S. Muslim advocacy group.

Eyewitness testimony reported Wednesday by Al Jazeera accused Israeli troops of massacring forcibly displaced women and children sheltering at a school in northern Gaza,

The Israeli soldiers came in and opened fire on them," one unidentified witness said. “They took all men, then entered classrooms and opened fire on a woman and all the children with her,” including “newborn children.”

“The Israeli soldiers executed those innocent families point-blank,” she added.

A man who arrived at the scene after the alleged mass murder told Al Jazeera that “we found dozens of dead bodies in the classrooms.”

“There is no sign of any missiles or shells,” he added. “All those who were in the buildings were executed from point-blank. The Israeli soldiers opened fire on them. Many families came searching for their children. They found them all killed. They were all killed, executed at gunpoint.”

  • Airazz@lemmy.world
    736·
    11 months ago

    Who is the witness? Why are random people walking around there? Or was it just another Hamas fighter who made stuff up to make Israel look bad?

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
      211·
      11 months ago

      https://youtu.be/yspylXsoDf8?si=jSLRbizJZbR2Fkte These are some of the witnesses

      There’s a pile of dead bodies and stories from people there. Since dead bodies don’t spawn out of thin air it’s pretty safe to assume that something happened.

      And since there are no rocket impacts the stories of executions look very likely.

      • Airazz@lemmy.world
        26·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, that’s not evidence of anything. It’s clearly staged by Hamas, as so many other examples. Israel doesn’t go around killing children, Hamas does. They’re quite proud of it too, they posted lots of videos of it on tiktok.

        • mycatiskai@lemmy.one
          4·
          11 months ago

          The current death toll shows your comment to be pretty false. Israel has been bombing indiscriminately and killing children for the past 2 months.

          A senior Israeli official told journalists on Monday that around a third of those killed in Gaza so far were enemy combatants, estimating their number at less than 10,000 but more than 5,000, without detailing how the estimate was reached. The official said the total count of some 15,000 dead as of Monday given by Palestinian authorities, who do not break down the count between civilians and combatants, is “more or less” right

          The PA health ministry said on Tuesday about 70% of Gaza’s dead were women and children under 18

          Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-have-died-gaza-war-how-will-counting-continue-2023-12-06/

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
          31·
          11 months ago

          Could you link one of those videos? Or PM me the link. So far not a single video of a Hamas fighter shooting children has been discovered even by the IDF.