Israel’s Moataz Tower attack targeted Gaza wedding, murders/maims woman, children

As Skwawkbox reported last night, the Israeli occupation bombed the Moataz Tower, one of its few surviving tall buildings in Gaza. But more details have emerged of the cynical, murderous attack — which targeted a wedding.

Israel followed its usual pattern of claiming it had aimed to kill a “senior Hamas” figure. The UK ‘mainstream’ media, if they bother reporting the atrocity at all, will parrot this line as though it’s not a war crime to slaughter hundreds of civilians to kill one man.

Gaza — life and limb

But they will not report the true aftermath of the crime, which robbed the wedding party and their guests of life and limb. Survivors fled the wrecked building, recounting the horrors of the attack as they came:

 

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Palestinian journalist Wadih Abu Al-Saud reported from the scene as rescuers spoke of severed limbs and heads, and of women and children trapped as the building burned:

 

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Israel perpetrated the attack on Nakba Day, when Palestinians remember the violent, colonial seizure of their lands and homes. The terror state remains able to function with impunity, in large part, because of the collaboration of western media and politicians.

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