Israel claims a tunnel ran through this Gaza cemetery it destroyed. A visit to the site raised more questions than answers | CNN
www.cnn.com
A week after a CNN investigation found that the Israeli military damaged or destroyed at least 16 cemeteries in Gaza since the beginning of the war, the Israeli military invited CNN into Gaza to explain why it partially destroyed one cemetery.

A spokesman for the Israeli military said they would provide video of the tunnel shaft in the enormous hole, but never did.

Instead, the IDF provided drone footage that showed two other tunnel entrances – one of which CNN entered – near the cemetery. CNN geolocated the tunnel entrances using footage filmed on the ground, as well as satellite imagery, and found that neither was in the cemetery grounds.

The Israeli military stood by its claims, insisting in a press release that a tunnel ran directly through the religious site.

But that press release also undermined Goldfuss’ claim that the underground command center was directly below the cemetery. A map released by the military placed the command center outside the graveyard.

  • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
    162·
    9 months ago

    I’m guessing nobody checks anything at this point. They hear a rumour, they bomb it. And, of course, there’s going to be a small but significant number of people on the Israeli side fabricating rumours whole-cloth.

    • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
      234·
      9 months ago

      It wasn’t bombed. They drove a tank through the cemetary, the footage of the aftermath shows what they did. It shows shrouded corpses and mangled body parts, piles of over turned dirt and tank treads.

      There was no tunnel, the iof just wanted to desercrate Palestinian graves.