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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 77608575" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><h3><a href="https://wapo.st/3TrIJjT" target="_blank">WaPo Gift Link: Drone footage raises questions about Israeli justification for deadly strike on Gaza journalists</a></h3><p>On Jan. 7, the Israeli military conducted a targeted missile strike on a car carrying four Palestinian journalists outside Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.</p><p></p><p>Two members of an Al Jazeera crew — Hamza Dahdouh, 27, and drone operator Mustafa Thuraya, 30 — <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/07/hamza-wael-dahdouh-aljazeera-killed/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" target="_blank">were killed</a>, along with their driver. Two freelance journalists were seriously wounded.</p><p></p><p>They were returning from the scene of an earlier Israeli strike on a building, where they had used a drone to capture the aftermath. The drone — a consumer model available at Best Buy — would be central to the Israeli justification for the strike.</p><p></p><p>The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement the next day it had “identified and struck a terrorist who operated an aircraft that posed a threat to IDF troops.” Two days later, the military announced that it had uncovered evidence that both men belonged to militant groups — Thuraya to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/israel-hamas-war/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4" target="_blank">Hamas</a> and Dahdouh to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, its smaller rival in Gaza — and that the attack had been in response to an “immediate” threat.</p><p></p><p>The Post found no indications that either man was operating as anything other than a journalist that day. Both passed through Israeli checkpoints on their way to the south early in the war; Dahdouh had recently been approved to leave Gaza, a rare privilege unlikely to have been granted to a known militant.</p><p></p><p>The Washington Post obtained and reviewed the footage from Thuraya’s drone, which was stored in a memory card recovered at the scene and sent to a Palestinian production company in Turkey. No Israeli soldiers, aircraft or other military equipment are visible in the footage taken that day — which The Post is publishing in its entirety — raising critical questions about why the journalists were targeted.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p></p><p>The night of the attack, a battle over the narrative began. The IDF said in a statement that its aircraft had “identified and struck a terrorist who operated an aircraft that posed a threat to IDF troops.”</p><p></p><p>The next day, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari appeared to backtrack: “Every journalist that dies, it’s unfortunate,” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/wael-dahdouh-palestinian-journalist-son-killed-israeli-strike-gaza-rcna132791" target="_blank">he told NBC</a>, saying the drone had made them look like “terrorists.</p><p></p><p>In a new statement on Jan. 10, the IDF said the drone had posed an “immediate threat” to nearby soldiers, though the strike occurred approximately 15 minutes after Thuraya had stopped recording.</p><p></p><p>In response to multiple inquiries and detailed questions from The Post, the IDF said: “We have nothing further to add.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 77608575, member: 294566"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://wapo.st/3TrIJjT']WaPo Gift Link: Drone footage raises questions about Israeli justification for deadly strike on Gaza journalists[/URL][/HEADING] On Jan. 7, the Israeli military conducted a targeted missile strike on a car carrying four Palestinian journalists outside Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Two members of an Al Jazeera crew — Hamza Dahdouh, 27, and drone operator Mustafa Thuraya, 30 — [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/07/hamza-wael-dahdouh-aljazeera-killed/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2']were killed[/URL], along with their driver. Two freelance journalists were seriously wounded. They were returning from the scene of an earlier Israeli strike on a building, where they had used a drone to capture the aftermath. The drone — a consumer model available at Best Buy — would be central to the Israeli justification for the strike. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement the next day it had “identified and struck a terrorist who operated an aircraft that posed a threat to IDF troops.” Two days later, the military announced that it had uncovered evidence that both men belonged to militant groups — Thuraya to [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/israel-hamas-war/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4']Hamas[/URL] and Dahdouh to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, its smaller rival in Gaza — and that the attack had been in response to an “immediate” threat. The Post found no indications that either man was operating as anything other than a journalist that day. Both passed through Israeli checkpoints on their way to the south early in the war; Dahdouh had recently been approved to leave Gaza, a rare privilege unlikely to have been granted to a known militant. The Washington Post obtained and reviewed the footage from Thuraya’s drone, which was stored in a memory card recovered at the scene and sent to a Palestinian production company in Turkey. No Israeli soldiers, aircraft or other military equipment are visible in the footage taken that day — which The Post is publishing in its entirety — raising critical questions about why the journalists were targeted. -- The night of the attack, a battle over the narrative began. The IDF said in a statement that its aircraft had “identified and struck a terrorist who operated an aircraft that posed a threat to IDF troops.” The next day, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari appeared to backtrack: “Every journalist that dies, it’s unfortunate,” [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/wael-dahdouh-palestinian-journalist-son-killed-israeli-strike-gaza-rcna132791']he told NBC[/URL], saying the drone had made them look like “terrorists. In a new statement on Jan. 10, the IDF said the drone had posed an “immediate threat” to nearby soldiers, though the strike occurred approximately 15 minutes after Thuraya had stopped recording. In response to multiple inquiries and detailed questions from The Post, the IDF said: “We have nothing further to add.” [/QUOTE]
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