Israel’s lies about its ‘Witkoff massacre’ of starving Palestinians at Gaza ‘aid’ point fall apart immediately

Analysis of video shows IDF’s video claimed to be Palestinian militia firing on civilians at GHF camp is from different location and shows armed Israel-supported gang

Despite Israel’s attempts to claim that its troops and mercenaries did not (again) commit the mass slaughter of starving Palestinian civilians at its ‘aid’ trap, volunteer surgeons have confirmed the mass casualties and the nature of the wounds they suffered, while expert video analysis has exposed a video published by the Israeli military, which it claims shows Palestinian resistance firing at civilians, in fact shows a completely different location – Khan Younis and not Rafah – and Israel-allied gunmen firing.

A video published by war reporter and photographer Liz Loh-Taylor exposes the lies one by one, including testimony from volunteer doctors confirming the mass casualty attack:

US investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill came to the same conclusion, reporting that analysis of the video released by the occupation military had confirmed the invasion force’s lies:

Rami Abdu, director of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, described Israel’s false claims about its the video as “a scandal”, adding that:

The footage showed gangs stealing aid, not Hamas shooting civilians. Israel is trying to hide its crime with lies.

The armed gang carrying out the looting and firing at Palestinian civilians is led by notorious criminal Yasser Abu Shabab and has long been known, even to Israel’s own media, to operate under the protection of the Israeli military, which has used it as a cut-out for stealing humanitarian aid meant for the people of Gaza:

Israel ‘arming criminal gangs to attack Gaza aid trucks’

Late last week, a resistance video showed a resistance ambush that was at first believed to be of Israeli troops but the attack turned out to have been on the Abu Shahab gang. Abu Shahab’s brother and others were killed in the attack, but Abu Shahab survived and escaped. Muhammad Shehada, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, posted a video of the attack with a statement that it formed:

🚨Conclusive evidence of Israel running the very criminal gangs looting aid in Gaza🧵

… upon closer inspection, they turned out to be Abu Shabab’s gang; the Israel-backed warlord, drug dealer, & serial criminal responsible for looting the vast majority of aid under full IDF protection.

Abu Shabab runs a gang of 100-200 armed mercenaries who sat up a military complex in Rafah with Israel’s backing

In the footage, Abu Shabab’s mercenaries were walking around a depopulated Rafah freely carrying weapons in front of Israeli troops (currently any [ordinary] Palestinian that walks into Rafah is killed on the spot).

The mercenaries were conducting surveillance activities for Israel of those areas.

Abu Shahab’s family, on learning this week that he has been collaborating with Israel and stealing from Palestinians, not only immediately disowned him but called for him to be killed, as Drop Site reported on Saturday:

Drop Site founder Ryan Grim revealed that in an ‘off the record’ statement that was not provided to him by the occupation military but came to him indirectly and was therefore fair game to reveal, Israel had admitted firing on the starving civilians but claimed – ludicrously, given the numbers killed and wounded, had fired ‘warning shots’ into the air:

Israel has repeatedly lied about its massacres and atrocities throughout its genocide in Gaza, from bombed hospitals to executed Palestinian paramedics to raped captives to bombed safe zones, tents, schools and food queues to fake ‘command centres‘ to justify attacks – and even about its starvation blockade of Gaza that has pushed two million people into famine and has driven more than three hundred thousand children to imminent death from malnutrition. And just as repeatedly, those lies have collapsed humiliatingly, sometimes after expert analysis and often under the sheer weight of incompetence, dishonesty and vileness.

It’s lie about its murderous attacks on refugees it lured into killing zones and concentration camps with the false promise of ‘aid’, to facilitate its war crime of ethnic cleansing is no different – one of the fastest to collapse, but by no means unique in either its speed or its horror.

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