Israel Caught In A Lie?

The war in Gaza is as much an info war as one between Israel and militant groups embedded in densely populated urban areas - as the bitter claims and counter-claims over what happened at the Al-Ahli hospital make clear.

The UK’s Channel Four News has weighed in with evidence that the Israeli side may be lying. It asked two independent Arab journalists to listen to a recording that Tel Aviv says is of Hamas operatives discussing a failed rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Both said it was fake, citing clumsy Arabic language use.

On top of that, the programme’s chief correspondent notes that Israel gave conflicting statements about where the rocket was supposed to have been launched from. But Alex Thomson also points out that PIJ claims to have an incriminating Israeli warhead - yet, for some reason, they aren’t showing it to the world.

Amid the fog of war, and info-war, and short of an independent probe, we’re unlikely to know the truth for certain any time soon. But the Israeli version certainly has some holes in it.

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