Hamas did exactly the same when it crossed into Israel on 7 Oct 2023, so Israel is showing that it is no pushover.
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Evidence shows Israel killed many of its own citizens on Oct. 7, then blamed Hamas
Joyce ChediacDecember 2, 2023
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The extensive damage done to Israeli cars and homes on Oct. 7 was most likely done by Israeli tanks and missiles, not by Palestinian fighters. Liberation News collage.
To date the Israeli government has killed 14,000 Palestinians in Gaza since Oct. 7, almost half of them children. It carpet-bombed whole neighborhoods. It is not allowing 1.7 million Gazans to return to the homes.
To justify this destruction, Israel wants to make it all about what happened on Oct. 7, and not what happened since then. On that day, it says, Hamas militants charged into Israel with a mission to kill as many civilians possible in the most brutal ways. The Netanyahu regime even has a 47-minute propaganda video it shows the press and diplomats entitled “Hamas Massacre.”
One by one, Tel Aviv’s stories claims of deliberate atrocities by Palestinian fighters — beheading children, raping women, using hospitals as military bases — have been debunked.
Now, there is a growing body of evidence that many of the Israeli civilians Tel Aviv claims were killed by Palestinian fighters on Oct. 7 were actually killed by the Israeli military.
Over the last month, eyewitness testimonies and other evidence has surfaced indicating that a great many of those blasted and torched on Oct. 7, Palestinian and Israeli alike, were the victims of indiscriminate and massive Israeli tank and helicopter bombardment.
The narrative now being pieced together is that Israeli forces fired a huge amount of ordinance indiscriminately from tanks and U.S.-supplied Apache helicopters on towns as well as on cars either fleeing a rave concert or driving towards Gaza with hostages, indiscriminately killing both Palestinian fighters and the Israeli civilians. This was a desperate attempt to contain the Palestinian surprise assault and to prevent the fighters from taking live Israeli hostages. The death toll was then added to those killed by Palestinian fighters and Hamas was blamed.
By the military’s own admission, Israeli pilots could not distinguish clearly between Palestinian combatants and Israeli civilians but decided to open fire anyway. Apache helicopter pilots fired continuously without intelligence on targets. Tank crews were ordered to shell homes, even though Israeli hostages might be inside. A military commander even ordered an air attack on his own base when he learned it had been overrun by Palestinian fighters.
At least part of the indiscriminate firing appears to have been a deliberate policy called the “Hannibal Directive” under which Israel is willing to kill its own citizens rather than have them taken hostage.
Sources are eyewitnesses and military personnel
The sources for this narrative are testimonies from Israeli civilian witnesses, Israeli military participants and Israeli military analysts. Their comments were gathered from the mainstream Israeli media, including Haaretz, Israel’s newspaper of record, with the relevant information buried in the middle of articles. This information has been assembled and reported in English primarily by independent media, including
The Electronic Intifada,
Mondoweiss and
The Grayzone.