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Nobody with any credibility will defend these actions if they are true.
Personally, I do not find an "unpublished report" of nameless and dateless "accounts" from UNRWA, an agency that is Gaza's largest employer--a significant number of whose employees and managers are supporters and accomplices to Hamas's continued power in Gaza as a matter of basic math--to be very credible. Especially when it comes to such outrageous, unbelievable, claims.
And for me it's doubly true when the coverage of the report (of the accounts) is from Qatari state media, funded by mega donors to Islamist nationalist movements. Notice how it cites to itself as verification of the report. Absolutely zero of the accounts have been independently verified, and if someone chimes in below with a link to other coverage, they will likely at least have the decency to say conspicuously that the accounts are unverified.
Fuck me for not believing it, right Hamas fans? It's not like Hamas and it's supporters would ever lie or exaggerate to perpetuate its own overt violations of international law as a part of a formal tactic known as lawfare! 🤡
What exactly does one call the coverage of a report of accounts, fourth hand information? Fifth?
Needless to say, if any of the accounts are found to be true, or to have been witnessed by other Israeli soldiers who failed to intervene, I have some hope that the perpetrators will be tried and convicted of their crimes. As opposed to in Gaza, where confessed perpetrators of overt war crimes get prizes.
All of the mainstream media outlets have published articles on the UNWRA report. This is just the most recent coverage.
They just report them, that doesn't verify the content. Especially since all report it as not verified.