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Remember that baby girl who died in Gaza last
month allegedly after inhaling teargas fired by Israeli soldiers against
Palestinian protestors?
Well–surprise, surprise–it turns out
9-month-old Layla Ghandour wasn't the victim of heartless Israeli brutality
after all. At least not according to her cousin.
Twenty-year-old Mohammed Omar was captured by
Israeli forces late last month while taking part in a three-man infiltration of
southern Israel. The Fatah-affiliated activists managed to cut through the Gaza
security fence and tried to set fire to an unmanned IDF post. Omar and one
other cell member were nabbed, while the third managed to escape back into
Gaza.
During his interrogation, Omar detailed the
planned attack, and also volunteered that he was related to Layla Ghandour.
According to his indictment filed by the
Southern District Attorney on Thursday, Omar told investigators that he was
present at the mass Gaza border demonstration on May 14, the day Layla died.
Omar reported receiving a phone call from his
mother informing him that his baby cousin had passed away. When he arrived
home, Omar was told that Layla had succumbed to the same blood disease that had
killed her brother less than a year earlier.
It was at that point, Omar recounted, that
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar got in touch with the family and offered them NIS
8,000 ($2,200) to tell reporters that Layla had died from inhaling Israeli
teargas.
This type of deception is not uncommon in the
Palestinians' portrayal of Israeli defensive and counter-terrorism measures.
Nor is the mainstream international media's willingness to publish each and
every unsubstantiated Palestinian claim against Israel absent even the most
rudimentary fact-checking.
As the above video notes, Hamas had already
removed Layla from the official Gaza border death toll at the end of last
month, but not until longer after the damage to Israel's reputation had been
done.
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