Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) called for an “independent investigation” into the bombing of a Gaza Strip hospital on Monday, continuing her refusal to accept U.S. and Israeli findings that they say show that Islamic Jihad terrorists were behind the atrocity.
“The media and outside analysts have raised doubts about the claims and evidence offered by both Israel and the Gaza Ministry of Health, and I agree with the United Nations that an independent investigation is necessary,” Tlaib said in a statement. release.
“I cannot uncritically accept as fact Israel’s denials of responsibility, especially in light of the World Health Organization’s confirmation that Israel has bombed numerous medical facilities in Gaza and the Red Crescent Society’s reports. Palestine over the Israeli army’s continued threats to evacuate the hospital. ” she said.
Hamas claimed last week that an Israeli airstrike killed about 500 people at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City, sparking unrest across the Middle East and forcing President Biden to cancel a planned summit with Arab leaders in Jordan.
A view of the interior of Al-Ahli hospital after a rocket hit.Telegram An injured person is taken to a hospital after hundreds of Palestinians were killed in an explosion at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed each other each other in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, in this screenshot obtained from a video dated October 17, 2023. REUTERS
But both the White House and the Israeli government have determined that the explosion was caused by a failed Islamic Jihad rocket from the Palestinian side of the border.
Islamic Jihad is a smaller, more radical Palestinian terrorist group that often works with Hamas.
“Both the Israeli and US governments have a long and documented history of misleading the public about wars and war crimes, such as the Israeli military assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh last year and the false claims of weapons of mass destruction that They took our country to the Iraq war. – and cannot absolve themselves of responsibility without an independent international investigation,” Tlaib added. “This debate should not distract us from the urgent need for a ceasefire to save innocent civilian lives.”
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) speaks at a press conference about the introduction of the “Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights” in front of the United States Capitol Building on September 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. Getty Images President Biden speaks during an event on the economy, from the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex, Monday, October 23, 2023.AP
The Israeli government has released intercepted phone calls from Gaza and other evidence that it says shows its military was not behind the bombing.
Israeli officials also said several dozen people were killed in the explosion, rather than the roughly 500 Hamas reported killed.
“I don’t know all the details, but I do know that the people in the Department of Defense that I respect and the intelligence community that I respect say it’s very unlikely that Israel did that,” Biden, 80, told journalists last week. .
People search through rubble outside the Ahli Arab hospital site in central Gaza on October 18, 2023, following an overnight explosion there. AFP via Getty Images
The New York Times, which initially attributed the bombing to Israel, citing Hamas, retracted its reporting on Monday, admitting that it “relied too much” on information from the terrorist group.
Investigations by the Wall Street Journal, CNN and Associated Press have also found evidence that the missile came from the terrorist organization – and not Israel – based on television images that they said appeared to show a failed Palestinian rocket in the air over Hospital.
Tlaib was enraged immediately after the bombing, tweeting: “Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that. [Biden] This is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire and help reduce tensions. His unique approach to war and destruction has opened the eyes of me and many Palestinian Americans and Muslim Americans like me. We will remember where you were.”
Then, at a pro-Palestinian rally outside the U.S. Capitol, the Michigan Democrat doubled down on the Hamas narrative.
“People think it’s OK to bomb a hospital with children,” Tlaib, a member of Congressional Democrats’ far-left “Squad,” told the crowd last Wednesday.
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