CNN’s Jeremy Diamond Delivers Fact-Check of Netanyahu’s Speech Defending Israel’s War in Gaza: ‘Doesn’t Even Pass the Smell Test’

EXCERPT:

DIAMOND: “But I think beyond that, Dana, I think what we also need to do here is fact-check a few key things that the Israeli prime minister said, because he made several claims here that attempted to not only defend the Israeli military‘s conduct in Gaza, but that also flew in the face of many of the facts on the ground. When he was talking about the ICC‘s claim that Israel is starving people of Gaza, you know, he talked about big numbers of aid getting in, but there is just very, very clear evidence, you talk to any humanitarian organization that actually works on the ground in Gaza, the United Nations, and even when you look at Israel in the way that they have turned on and back off the faucet of aid to Gaza, there is clear evidence that Israel has not always allowed enough aid in, that they have not done enough to de-conflict militarily to provide safe routes for that aid to get in. And you also have to remember that ministers, members of Netanyahu‘s own government called for starving the people of Gaza in the earliest days of the war. Then he also made this frankly laughable claim that there are practically no civilians who were killed in Rafah. I can think of several strikes in which civilians were killed. So that just doesn‘t even pass the smell test. And then he once again cited this West Point expert, John Spencer, claiming that Israel has the lowest civilian casualty ratio. You talk to any other expert on the conduct of militaries in warfare, including how the United States has carried out its campaigns, and they will all say that Israel has not taken nearly as many precautions as most modern militaries do in warfare in Gaza."

(Via Mediaite)