Killers and Liars: Israel Faked Evidence To Justify Murdering Civilians at Gaza Hospitals - Forged Hama's 'Human Shield' Document

Israel's Video Justifying Destruction of a Hospital Was From 2009

French President Sarkozy told US President Obama, "I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a
liar." (Illustration by Ronald David Jackson)

By Gareth Porter,
A video distributed by the Israeli military in July suggesting that Palestinian fighters had fired from the Al Wafa Rehabilitation and Geriatric Hospital in Gaza City was not shot during the recent Israeli attack on Gaza, and both audio and video clips were manipulated to cover up the fact that they were from entirely different incidents, a Truthout investigation has revealed.

The video clip showing apparent firing from an annex to the hospital was actually shot during Israel's 2008-09 "Operation
Cast Lead," and the audio clip accompanying it was from an incident unrelated to Al Wafa. (Screen grab: The Times of Israel)

The video, released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on July 23, the same day Israeli airstrikes destroyed Al Wafa, was widely reported by pro-Israeli publications and websites as proving that the hospital was destroyed because Hamas had turned the hospital into a military facility. But the video clip showing apparent firing from an annex to the hospital was actually shot during Israel's 2008-09 "Operation Cast Lead," and the audio clip accompanying it was from an incident unrelated to Al Wafa.

The 'Hamas Human Shield Manual' is a Sloppy Forgery
Produced by the Israel' Defense Force

The misleading video was only the last in a series of IDF dissimulations about Al Wafa hospital that included false claims that Hamas rockets had been launched from the hospital grounds, or very near it, and that the hospital had been damaged by an attack on the launching site.

The IDF began to prepare the ground for the destruction of Al Wafa hospital well before Israeli ground troops entered Gaza on July 17. On July 11, the IDF fired four warning rockets on the fourth floor of Al Wafa, making a large hole in the ceiling - the standard IDF signal that a building was going to be destroyed by an airstrike.

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