Keir Starmer’s statement about October 7 is full of falsehoods
Fellow politics site Skwawkbox reckons Keir Starmer’s statement about October 7 is full of falsehoods.
It saves This Writer from having to check it myself so…
Here’s the statement itself:
Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer’s statement on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks. pic.twitter.com/EPvdIIQEeB
— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) October 7, 2024
And here’s a taste of what Skwawkbox has to say:
‘Over a thousand people were brutally murdered’
This is not actually true – the final death toll was revised down last December to 695 – but Mr Starmer also omits the fact that an ‘immense’ number of those killed, especially at the Nova music festival, were brutally killed by their own military. This is a fact that has for many months been openly discussed by the media in Israel – with the frank admission in July that Israeli forces spent much of 7 October repeatedly attacking their own citizens – but which UK media and politicians stubbornly ignore because it wrecks the narrative used to justify Israel’s slaughter, maiming and starvation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.
‘Rape, torture and brutality’.
The United Nations investigated Israel’s claims of rape by Hamas and its allies during the 7 October raid. It found that there was no claim that was supported by evidence and some that were provably false – all the claims were either ‘unfounded’ or ‘unverified’ and what little ‘evidence’ Israel claimed to present was demonstrably ‘inaccurate’ or at best ‘unreliable’. The UN’s investigators, both women, ‘could not verify any sexual violence.
Israeli women who were taken captive during the raid and later released have reported being treated like ‘queens’, while others have remarked on how they were treated well by, and often fed better than, their captors.
Similarly, investigations found that claims of mutilation were either entirely made up – as in the case of the ‘forty beheaded babies’, babies ripped from their mother’s womb, babies cooked in ovens and women’s breasts being severed – or else were the result of misinterpretation of the position and condition of burned bodies (who can only have been burned by IDF weaponry). The supposed photographic evidence of a dead woman with her ‘stomach ripped open, baby umbilical connected by umbilical cord’ turned out to be a fridge with its electrical cord trailing. ‘Witnesses’ who later came forward claiming to have seen the atrocities in question had earlier been interviewed in print and on camera without mentioning them – and one supposedly traumatised onlooker posted selfie videos on the day in which he looked cheerful and made no mention of them.
There’s much more. Read it here: https://skwawkbox.org/2024/10/07/dear-mr-starmer-we-fact-checked-your-7-oct-statement-youre-welcome/
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Came across the following from last month yesterday…. perhaps you could post an article about it:
Report shows IDF’s silence on fears ahead of Nova, failure to react as massacre unfolded
On the eve of the Supernova music festival on October 7, the security professionals responsible for the event repeatedly asked for information about a potential terror threat from Gaza, and were rebuffed by senior IDF commanders, according to a television report on Sunday.
Deputy Superintendent Nivi Ohana of the nearby Ofakim police station, who oversaw security for the event, even asked the military explicitly about a potential terrorist infiltration, according to the Channel 12 report, and did not receive a response.
The 24-minute TV exposé included details from documents in the days leading up to the event showing expressions of concern from the festival’s security team, communications between police and the military during the massacre, and recently released footage of fighting during the invasion.
On October 6, senior IDF officers even held several late-night meetings about the situation — as has previously been reported — but in none of the discussions did anyone bring up the Supernova party, according to Channel 12.
“Israel Police received no indication that anything was taking place. Maybe if we had been a part of [the discussions], we could at least have made a decision to shut down the party,” Azulai said.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/tv-report-details-idfs-silence-on-security-fears-failure-to-react-to-nova-massacre/