Yeah I remember this one. The “intelligence dossier” was just the same claims Israel was making publicly without additional evidence. Now maybe it’s all true, but clearly most media outlets implied there was stronger evidence than actually existed. UK’s Channel 4 was the exception.
Original Channel 4 video which shows the actual dossier which is just a list of the people Israel was accusing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqG2yeF_4sg
I would question what “ties to militant groups” actually defines.
Is it active support of known Hamas-members? Or is it more like aidworkers giving school supplies to the school of the daughter of the 3rd cousin of the brother-in-law’s grandmothers brother, who once had tea with someone who might be a Hamas member?
Because Gaza is contained in itself and not big to begin with. Everybody is connected somehow. And if you count indirect contact as “ties to militant groups” you could easily get to 10%.
This number, even if true, doesn’t mean anything without definition.
When I did development work in Cambodia, I had contact with several former Khmer Rouge. They are part of the population. That doesn’t mean I was connected to their genocide.
To be clear their claims were not just about ties to militant groups, the big claim was that 12 UNRWA employees took part in the raid Which turned out to be without evidence.
In the original six-page dossier, seen by Al Jazeera, Israeli intelligence provided a number of accusations against UNRWA without evidence, including that the agency’s facilities had been used by Hamas in its October attack. Moreover, according to the dossier, 12 staff members had participated directly in the attack, with 190 others offering intelligence and logistical support. In March, the Israeli military claimed it had evidence implicating four more UNRWA staff members.
A more detailed report produced by the Nordic research groups supporting Colonna wrote: “Israeli authorities have to date not provided any supporting evidence nor responded to letters from UNRWA in March, and again in April, requesting the names and supporting evidence that would enable UNRWA to open an investigation.”
But even then, they accused 10% of 12,000 aidworkers. Thats 1,200 people. What are the ties of the other 994 aidworkers who supposedly are involved?
The ones they listed there are less than 2% of aidworkers.
Maybe there were Hamas collaborators within the aid agency, you always have black sheep or infiltrators who join with an ulterior motive. But 10% is whole other ballpark. A ballpark that eliminates your funding as we have seen.
For me, that was a targeted attack by Israeli inteligence using the media to stave out the civilian population of Gaza. Specifically aimed at the weak and vulnerable part of the population.
NBC News - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for NBC News:
> MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
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ABC News - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for ABC News:
> MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
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Al Jazeera - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for Al Jazeera:
> MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: Medium - Factual Reporting: Mixed - Qatar
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CNN - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for CNN:
> MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: Mostly Factual - United States of America
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Washington Post - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for Washington Post:
> MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: Mostly Factual - United States of America
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How did it start? I’m not American so I only get to see the reactions to newspieces commenting that Republicans are hating the weird thing, but have no idea how it’s being used.
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