“In wars, generally, armies lie,” says Mathilde Panot

“In wars, armies generally lie”, says the president of the La France insoumise (LFI) group in the Assembly, Mathilde Panot, interviewed Thursday October 19 on France Inter about the explosion in the courtyard of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. The Israeli army denies being behind this explosion, and blames Islamic Jihad. This Palestinian group in turn accuses him of having caused the tragedy.

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For the leader of the Insoumis deputies, the hypothesis according to which the Israeli army is responsible “remains the most credible”because “the Israeli government has already lied several times”. For example, “in 2009 [lors d’une opération menée dans la bande de Gaza]the Israeli far-right government said that it had not used white phosphorus and then admitted, in the face of evidence that had been collected by NGOs, that it had used it..

“Look at the figures from the World Health Organization, which I believe are quite reliable figures, which show that since the start of the siege of Gaza, 111 medical infrastructures have been targeted, 12 healthcare professionals have been killed and 60 ambulances targetedpoints out the elected representative from Val-de-Marne. You are not going to explain to me, when a UN school is bombed, that this is where Hamas is hiding.”