Unfortunately many of the government presented eyewitness accounts have been thoroughly debunked. While I do not doubt that rape occurred, it looks like the Israeli government attempted to greatly exaggerate the events. This includes conflating civilian and military deaths; falsely claiming 40 babies were beheaded (only one was killed); falsely claiming children were staked together and burned alive; and more.
What’s really flabbergasting to me is the reality was bad enough. 900 civilians killed. Grenades thrown into shelters. Cases of burning individual people to death. Cases of rape and murder. Cases of torturing people before killing them.
They didn’t need to lie. But they did anyways and now it’s really hard to trust anything the Israeli government puts out.
Unfortunately many of the government presented eyewitness accounts have been thoroughly debunked. While I do not doubt that rape occurred, it looks like the Israeli government attempted to greatly exaggerate the events. This includes conflating civilian and military deaths; falsely claiming 40 babies were beheaded (only one was killed); falsely claiming children were staked together and burned alive; and more.
What’s really flabbergasting to me is the reality was bad enough. 900 civilians killed. Grenades thrown into shelters. Cases of burning individual people to death. Cases of rape and murder. Cases of torturing people before killing them.
They didn’t need to lie. But they did anyways and now it’s really hard to trust anything the Israeli government puts out.