from Daily Sabah
The U.S. Congress repeatedly stood in applause Wednesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed American lawmakers, at times misleading, in other instances outright lying to the federal legislature.
While Netanyahu's presence drew massive protests outside the Capitol and Washington, in general, his fiery speech has been denounced by the Palestinian group Hamas.
The Israeli Prime Minister told the Congress that Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has one of the lowest ratios of combatants to non-combatant casualties in the history of urban warfare."
The claim is far from the truth in Gaza, where the confirmed Palestinian death toll sits at nearly 40,000, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
It has repeatedly publicized lists of the dead, including their Israeli-issued identification numbers, and whose data from past conflicts the U.N. has attested as reliable.
The majority of the dead have been women and children and not every man killed has been a combatant.
Israel has largely shrugged off civilian casualties, blaming Hamas as the number has risen dramatically over the past nine months...
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