Chaos and Shots Fired at Desperate Crowd in Rafah Aid Distribution Center

by Scott Creighton

The State Department spokesman will lie and tell you it was Hamas firing the guns. But that is not what happened.

'Israeli troops have opened fire near thousands of hungry Palestinians as a logistics group chosen by Israel to ship food into Gaza lost control of its distribution centre on its second day of operations.' The Guardian 

Is that clear enough? The IDF opened fire on the crowd in Rafah in order to 'calm them' as thousands of hungry Palestinian desperately attempted to get their hands on some little tiny bit of aid the Glorious Israelis graciously allowed to cross INTO SOMEONE ELSES COUNTRY.

Don't believe the goy? Here is the Jerusalem Post's version: 

' The IDF on Tuesday celebrated the announcement of the opening of two large food distribution centers by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which in turn said it had handed out around 462,000 meals’ worth of food.

However, the first day of distributions was plagued by ongoing controversy.

At one point in the afternoon, the Palestinian crowds who had come to receive food overran the facility’s outer defenses, trying to seize as much food as they could for themselves. This led the IDF and the US security contractors running the facility to fire warning shots in the air to make the crowd back off.' Jerusalem Post

Now watch State Department official lie about who fired the guns and then claim Glorious Israel should be given credit for distributing '462,000 meals'... the number coming right from the IDF propaganda outlet. 

'Another Day, Another Cover-Up,' Rights Group Says as IDF Releases Report on Medics' Killing

from Common Dreams

The Israel Defense Forces' report on the killing of 15 paramedics in Gaza last month was "sure to lead to increased demands for an independent investigation," said one journalist for Sky News, which recently released an extensive account of the incident that experts and advocates have called a potential war crime.

The IDF said it had found "several professional failures, breaches of orders, and a failure to fully report the incident" that took place on March 23, when Israeli troops opened fire on a convoy of vehicles that included ambulances, killing the 15 rescue workers.

But officials claimed that there was "no attempt to conceal the event" and the report suggested the firing of a deputy commander for providing an "inaccurate report" and the reprimanding of a commanding officer should satisfy the international outcry over the incident, after which United Nations and Palestinian Red Crescent officials discovered the medics' bodies and their crushed rescue vehicles had been buried in a shallow mass grave...

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Gaza rejects Israeli probe into 'summary executions' of medics

from Daily Sabah

Gaza’s civil defense agency on Monday rejected an Israeli army probe and accused Israeli forces of executing 15 rescue workers last month in what it described as "summary killings."

The medics and other rescue workers were killed when responding to distress calls near Gaza's southern city of Rafah early on March 23, days into Israel's renewed offensive in the Palestinian territory.

Among those killed were eight Red Crescent staff members, six from the Gaza civil defense rescue agency and one employee of UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, according to the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA and Palestinian rescuers...

An Israeli military investigation into the incident released Sunday "found no evidence to support claims of execution" or "indiscriminate fire" by its troops, but admitted to operational failures and said it was firing a field commander.

It claimed six of those killed were resistance members, revising an earlier claim that nine of the men were members of different armed groups...

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