“I understand that you want to damage the camera. Why [are you] killing the people?” a Nasser Hospital doctor said.
Palestinians are calling out the Israeli military’s obvious lie that it was trying to “dismantle” a camera when it targeted a hospital in Gaza this week in a double tap strike that killed 21 people, including five journalists and the rescue team sent to save them.
In a statement on the results of its “initial inquiry” into the attack, the Israeli military claimed that troops operating in the area had “identified a camera that was positioned by Hamas” near Nasser Hospital. The military claimed the camera was observing their activities, and the troops “operated to remove the threat by striking and dismantling the camera.”
This is a clear lie on several levels, Palestinians and reports have pointed out — particularly given that Israel has the capability to take down a camera without killing 21 people and bombing a hospital in the process.
Locals say that the location Israel bombed is well-known to be a gathering spot for journalists because they can access the internet there and use it for broadcasting. It is also the emergency stairs for the “main” wing of the hospital, said Nasser’s head of pediatrics, Ahmed al-Farra, in an interview with Democracy Now! on Wednesday. The building includes the ICU, operating theater and “all the main departments” of the complex, he said.
Al-Farra pointed out that, if Israel needed to dismantle a single camera, there are far less deadly ways to do so.
“I understand that you want to damage the camera. Why [are you] killing the people?” he said. “You are highly techni[cal]. You have high technique. You have a drone.
