Israel Deliberately Shelling Media Buildings In Gaza To Cover Up War Crimes

[G.L.R.]

Israel is deliberately obliterating media buildings in Gaza to cover up the war crimes that will follow

14 May, 2021

The destruction of two important Gaza buildings housing 20 media outlets was both shocking and predictable. History shows that if the media aren't around to document Israel's war crimes, it's a lot easier for it to commit them.

On Tuesday, Israel bombed the 10-storey Al-Jawhara Tower, causing it to collapse. Before doing so, it had 'benevolently' warned that the airstrikes were coming. The following day, it bombed the 14-storey Al-Shorouk Tower, also giving warning it was going to do so. Most reports have the buildings as evacuated before being levelled. But without these media offices, reporting on Israel's other war crimes will be left largely to what little media remain and citizen journalists. The buildings were significant... the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) noted the Al-Jawhara building housed the offices of 13 media institutions and NGOs. And the Committee to Protect Journalists noted that the Al-Shorouk building housed at least seven media outlets... the same committee said that the Israeli military had defended its bombing of the building via email, bizarrely claiming it had "acted within international law,"  ...

Humanity should take "swift" action to resist Israel's "aggression", Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said as Ankara reported that Turkish news agency journalists and UN-backed schools were hit by Israeli strikes in Gaza.

"... I had only slept for one-and-a-half hours when it was hit by two missiles on the top floor," he told me. "When it was bombed in 2014, we had taken precautions and left it already. They struck the 15th floor, destroying it completely. Our floor became the top floor after that." The building was on a main Gaza street, Omar Mukhtar, surrounded by residential apartment buildings... The same month, I was inside the now-destroyed Al-Shorouk building, having just finished an interview with RT about what I'd seen while riding in ambulances in the extremely dangerous areas of Gaza's north. Shortly after concluding the interview, Israel shelled the building at least seven times...

Israel is deliberately obliterating media buildings in Gaza to cover up the war crimes that will follow — RT Op-ed
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/523875-israel-gaza-air-strikes-war-crimes

'Terrorist state' Israel must be stopped, Turkish President Erdogan says, adding it has 'crossed all limits' — RT World News
https://www.rt.com/news/523880-turkey-erdogan-israel-terrorist-state

[G.L.R.]

The Zionists are destroying even the media they control overseas. And this is what the republican/democrats did in sending billions in 'aid' mostly for the military.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

Woke MSM is upset 

Israeli forces destroy media outlets' Gaza base, says it housed 'Hamas military intelligence'

Israel's army destroys Al Jazeera, Associated Press offices in Gaza

Two of the world's biggest media organisations have witnessed their office be destroyed after the Israeli army launched an air strike against it.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/israels-army-destroys-al-jazeera-associated-press-offices-in-gaza/news-story/e63c2638ec22166415cc089bcd38446d

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-15/israel-targets-gaza-building-housing-media/100142158

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2021/05/16/israel-air-strike-gaza-tower-media

The Israeli military has said during nearly a week of intense conflict that its strikes on buildings in Gaza were aimed at hitting targets used by Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the enclave.

It also claimed to have bombed the house of a senior leader of Hamas Khalil al-Hayya.

The house served as "terror infrastructure," the army said, releasing a video of the attack.

According to Palestinian sources, al-Hayya was not in the house at the time of the attack.

Palestinians say at least 140 people, including 39 children, have been killed in Gaza since the conflict erupted on Monday. Israel has reported 10 dead, including two children.

Hamas militants have fired more than 2,000 rockets at Israel during the latest violence. Palestinians medics say at least 139 people, including 39 children, have been killed in Gaza. Israel has reported nine dead, including two children.

Diplomacy has so far failed to quell the worst escalation in fighting between Israel and Palestinians since 2014.

Hamas began its assault on Monday after tensions over a court case to evict several Palestinian families in East Jerusalem and in retaliation for Israeli police clashes with Palestinians near the city's al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site.

They hit the Arabs as civilian targets, they think it's acceptable to do that .... but as soon as a bloke like Brendon Tarrant who also hates Arabs goes doing what he did they start rallying up politicians and media to call any advocate for White Rights a "terrorist" and ban Swastikas or even call Blood and Honour who peacefully put on private musical events "terrorists"

[G.L.R.]

Show me the Hamas "rockets" instead of the phony "iron dome" BS.  Some are starting to figure it out.  Israel lying to justify attacks on Palestinians, who could have imagined such a thing?