Mainstream media in the United Kingdom documented the fabricated Israeli narrative (Shutterstock)

British writer Peter Oburn says that a documentary broadcast by Al Jazeera about the October 7 attack, which was carried out by the Palestinian resistance led by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), reveals the false and inflammatory allegations about that attack and how these lies made their way into the mainstream press in Britain. .

In an article on the British Middle East Eye website, Auburn describes the film, which was produced by the Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, as sober, clear, and accurate.

He said that this documentary does not hesitate to detail the actions committed by Hamas, but it shows beyond a reasonable doubt that many of the horrific stories that emerged from Israeli sources were false.

Lies that paved the way for annihilation

The writer explained that the Al Jazeera film reveals that the highly inflammatory Israeli stories, whether related to allegations of mass rape or the beheading and burning of children, are not supported by evidence and are outright lies. However, they paved the way for the ensuing Israeli attack on Gaza, which the International Court of Justice described as... It would likely be genocide.

He pointed out that Al Jazeera painstakingly described how these stories entered the public domain, and its description included a continuous look at the Israeli ZAKA unit, which is Israel's emergency response unit of trained paramedics who deal with "terrorism" incidents and murders.

He said Al Jazeera showed how ZAKA provided details of atrocities that never happened, including children being burned and beheaded, which made headlines around the world and were used by Israel to maximum propaganda effect to gain sympathy.

Zakka is the source of lies

It was reported in the Al Jazeera film that Yossi Landau, a ZAKA employee, told reporters that Hamas burned to death “two piles of 10 children each” in a house on Kibbutz Be’eri.

Various media outlets pounced on this narrative, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated in a conversation with US President Joe Biden: “They took dozens of children, tied them up, burned them, and executed them.”

Al Jazeera showed that these accounts were incorrect, such as showing that the list of alleged dead children included only the 12-year-old twins who were tragically killed when police and soldiers stormed the house on Kibbutz Be’eri, and that there was no arson or beheading, and no evidence. Jada supports allegations of widespread and systematic rape.

The writer commented that the serious, thoughtful, and lively reports broadcast by Al Jazeera highlight one interesting point: Why was this matter left to Al Jazeera to do?

Why did the British media fail?

He wondered: Why couldn't the British media do that? The BBC, Sky News, or the famous investigative unit of the Sunday Times, and the tabloids that carry out campaigns from time to time such as the Daily Mail or the Daily Express, or others?

He said that the answer may be simple, which is that the mainstream media in the United Kingdom documented and promoted the fabricated Israeli narrative and leveled accusations of bad faith at those who doubted it. According to one Telegraph headline: “Israel should not have proven that Hamas slaughtered children.”

Justification for the genocide in Gaza

Oburn went on to say that early reports of arson and beheading presented Hamas members as subhuman barbarians, “like ISIS,” and that these fabricated reports were used to justify Israel’s brutality toward the Palestinian population of Gaza.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said at the United Nations: “Tell me, what is the appropriate response to killing children? To raping and burning women? To beheading a child? The appropriate response to the October 7 massacre is complete destruction, complete destruction, to the last limb.” In Hamas.”

US Republican Senator Marco Rubio said: “I do not think there is any way that Israel can be expected to coexist or find some diplomatic relations with these savages.”

Oburn returned to say that the Al Jazeera film did more than just correct the record of events on October 7, as it raises serious concerns about the failure of the British media to question the Israeli narrative, and that these outlets have placed themselves vulnerable to accusation of complicity in stripping the Palestinians of their humanity, Which in turn opened the way for what appears increasingly like genocide in Gaza every day.

Source: Middle East Eye