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This is How Israel Promotes its Lies to the World
An article by Robin Anderson, an American writer and professor at Fordham University
When Israel bombed the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis on May 13, it assassinated well-known Palestinian journalist Hassan Al-Aslihi. It was the second time he had been targeted.
He had previously been attacked on April 7, when Israel bombed the journalists’ tent outside Nasser Hospital, resulting in the martyrdom of journalist Ahmad Mansour.
Hassan survived the April attack, but a month later, while he was being treated in a hospital bed for severe burns and the loss of two fingers, the second explosion killed him. That blast also destroyed the hospital’s burn unit.
The Israeli occupation army boasted that Hassan was the target in both attacks, claiming he was a Hamas fighter “disguised as a journalist.” These are the same false allegations Israel routinely makes whenever it kills a journalist in Gaza — just another one of its lies.
Ryan Grim, co-founder of Drop Site News, responded to “the insane statements from the occupation army,” calling Israel’s allegations “objectively psychopathic behavior.”
The Israeli army claimed it bombed the hospital because “a financial official in the Hamas…
