An investigation by a consortium of international media outlets published on Tuesday attributes the November 2, 2023 attack on the France-Presse headquarters in the Gaza Strip to the Israeli army.
The tank attack, recalls the EupoliticaropaPress news agency, ended without casualties, since all people were evacuated in advance.
The investigation was carried out by Agence France-Presse and other international media under the direction of Forbidden Stories and included an examination of images from a camera installed on the office terrace, which suffered severe property damage, as well as images of the aftermath of the attack. attacks and satellite images.
The attack, carried out less than a month after the launch of the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip following the October 7 attacks carried out by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), was carried out using a shell from a tank, a weapon that only Israel has in the context of the Palestinian conflict enclave.
The Israeli army said at the time that the building, located in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, was not attacked “in any way,” but later said the incident was being investigated and has not yet released the results of the investigation. . their investigations.
The AFP team was removed from the scene on October 13 after Israel demanded that all civilians leave the city, but a camera mounted on a tenth-floor balcony continued to film, even live-streaming the attack around midday on November 2. A second camera installed on the floor below continued recording after the event.
Banned Stories also said the same day that the Israeli military used “drones” (unmanned aerial vehicles) to attack journalists and used “multiple artificial intelligence systems to create targets,” including Lavender, “used to create a death list ” more than 37,000 people.”
Khalil Dewan, a lawyer and drone warfare researcher, said the Israeli army “attacks targets with a high degree of knowledge of who they are killing.”
“In drone warfare, cell phones, SIM cards, the use of certain location-based social media applications and live broadcasts expose humans to target mapping,” he explained, stating that “drones operate in ecosystem intelligence signals and communications infrastructures.”
About 50 journalists from 13 media outlets around the world are working on the Gaza Project, which also covers Israeli operations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
“This is our way of breathing new life into the stories that cost them their lives and freedom. Killing journalists will not end this story,” Forbidden Stories said.
The Israeli army launched an offensive on the Gaza Strip following the aforementioned attacks on October 7, which killed nearly 1,200 people and kidnapped nearly 240 others.
Since then, authorities in the Islamist group’s Gaza Strip have recorded more than 37,600 deaths, as well as more than 520 Palestinians killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Israeli troops or in settler attacks.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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