{"id":274533,"date":"2023-10-15T08:55:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T08:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274533"},"modified":"2023-10-16T08:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T08:23:40","slug":"idf-denies-striking-gaza-evacuation-convoys-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274533","title":{"rendered":"IDF denies striking Gaza evacuation convoys \u2018on purpose\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 Oct 14, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces have denied deliberately killing civilians trying to flee north Gaza in airstrikes, saying any information coming from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave should be treated with <em>\u201cextreme caution and suspicion\u201d<\/em>\u00a0as it serves their <em>\u201cpropaganda purposes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While not completely ruling out the possibility of a <em>\u201cfreak accident,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0IDF spokesperson Lt. Colonel Jonathan Conricus insisted on Sunday that <em>\u201cthere was no targeting of vehicles, there was no targeting of civilians\u201d<\/em>\u00a0referring to Friday&#8217;s incident, in which dozens of people were killed or injured.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman demonstrated a video showing cars driving down Salah al-Din road, following an Israeli evacuation order, before an explosion hit one of the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m not a forensic expert, I won\u2019t be able to say if this is a roadside IED or if this is a strike from above. But what I am able to say with confidence, because we have asked, is that the IDF did not purposely strike in that area,\u201d<\/em> Conricus said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LIVE UPDATE with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jconricus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jconricus<\/a>: Hamas is blocking the evacuation of civilians. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N7Y08WP8gM\">https:\/\/t.co\/N7Y08WP8gM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDF\/status\/1713404793790550313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Health officials in the Hamas-governed Palestinian enclave claimed on Friday that Israeli airstrikes hit civilian cars in three separate locations, killing 70 people, and injuring up to 150 others. The UN humanitarian body, OCHA, said that <em>\u201cthese incidents prompted many people to abandon their evacuation efforts and return home.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, the IDF spokesman insisted that <em>\u201cwhen the so-called Gaza Ministry of Health issues information about the amount of people killed, if they were armed or not, if they were women or children, obviously that information is authorized by Hamas\u2026 and serves its propaganda purposes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The IDF spokesman went on to argue that it <em>\u201cmakes no sense for the IDF to have done it,\u201d<\/em> specifically <em>\u201cbecause we wanted people to go south.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWho would want to stop those same civilians \u2013 the same organization that did the roadblocks,\u201d<\/em> he claimed. <em>\u201cHamas has both issued warnings to their civilians not to evacuate and when people did not listen to those warnings of Hamas they have actually stopped civilians.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Again, this is not conclusive,\u201d<\/em> the spokesman admitted. <em>\u201cWhat is conclusive is that we for sure did not strike on purpose. It may have been some kind of a freak accident, which I doubt.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Israel ordered the population of northern Gaza to move to the south in order to\u00a0<em>\u201csave their lives,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and distance themselves from the militants ahead of\u00a0a ground offensive.<em>\u00a0<\/em>The entire territory remains blockaded, with the crossing to Egypt closed since Tuesday due to Israeli airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p>Following Hamas&#8217; attack on Israel last weekend, which left some 1,300 Israelis dead, Israel has targeted Gaza with the most intense bombing campaign in decades, killing upwards of 2,200 Palestinians and injuring over 7,600, according to local health officials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/584949-idf-gaza-evacuation-convoys\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graphic footage from Palestinian ambulance crew confirms strikes on civilian convoys fleeing Gaza.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Footage shows moments before and after Israeli airstrike hits civilian convoy fleeing Gaza \u2013 video<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Guardian \u2013 Oct 14, 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bsEj2dcihP4?si=Z-pTPtfxrbAzlhaK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other words a civilian evacuation convoy was indeed hit in Gaza. So Israeli spokesmen are now suggesting that the strike may have been caused a Hamas IED. However, given Israeli claims about babies being \u2018beheaded\u2019 and their ignorance about the impending Hamas offensive, some scepticism would be in order here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":274502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274540,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274533\/revisions\/274540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}