Posted on 01/04/2024 6:21:16 AM PST by SJackson
[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Since Oct. 7, the public has been inundated with allegations of Israeli atrocities and human rights abuses. Israel, we’re told, is committing a “genocide” in Gaza, and, in fact, has been through all the years in which the Gazan population has grown steadily. The strange story of one young woman, or really, one photograph, is an object lesson in why such claims of Israeli evils should be taken with a large grain of salt.
On X, a poster who identifies herself as Hagit on Sunday posted a highly illuminating thread about a girl with “6 different identities,” and “all of them suffered from the IDF!” This is, said Hagit, “proof of how the Arab media blatantly lies regarding the ‘crimes of the occupation.” Is it really? Let’s see.
Back on June 2, 2016, the Arabic-language Palestine News Network published an article about a child prisoner, Salwa Taqaqta, who had been arrested “under the pretext that she was carrying a knife,” and to whom the Israelis were refusing to grant early release, despite the fact that she was only fourteen years old. Accompanying the article was a photo of a girl, presumably Salwa Taqaqta, surrounded by soldiers. She is wearing a hijab, kneeling on the ground, blindfolded and with her hands cuffed behind her.
Adding to the impression that this was not simply a stock image is the fact that on June 28, 2016, another Arabic source, Wattan.net, published an article about a “minor prisoner, Salwa Taqaqta (13 years old), from the town of Beit Fajjar, Bethlehem District,” whom the Israelis had sentenced to four and a half months in prison. Accompanying that article was the same photo of a hijabed girl kneeling handcuffed and blindfolded.
Then on Feb. 5, 2017, the Palestine Chronicle reported that an Israeli court had “sentenced a teenage Palestinian girl from Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem to six years in prison after she was charged with knife possession and planning a stab attack.” She was identified as Manar Majdi Shweiki, and the article included a photo with the caption, “Manar Shweiki after her arrest.” It was, however, exactly the same photo that Palestine News Network and Wattan.net had used of Salwa Taqaqta.
The same photo showed up again on Sept. 23, 2018, when another Arabic source, Sebafm.net, reportedthat “the Israeli occupation forces arrested the child Tasnim Basem Maatouq (15 years old) from the town of Al-Eizariya, east of occupied Jerusalem, to force her brother to surrender himself to them. Then on Dec. 8, 2019, Felesteen News reported that Israeli forces “arrested the child Afnan Abu Sneina (14 years old), on her way to her school, at the ‘Abu Al-Rish’ checkpoint, claiming that she possessed a knife.” Once again, the same photo is supplied. The official Palestinian Authority news agency, WAFA, put out the same story with the same picture.
On Thursday, a Palestinian lawyer, Qays Sediqi, posted the photo once again, with the caption “Young PALESTINIAN girl under the ‘care’ of ISRAEL.” The following day, another Arabic news outlet, AlTasrih.com, used the photo yet again to accompany a new story about the Israelis arresting an unnamed Palestinian girl in Gaza. Here yet again, as in all the other uses of the same photo, there is no indication that it was being used as a stock image; it was presented as a photo of the arrested girl in question.
So who is the girl in the photo? Hagit concludes that she is “Sabreen Mujahid Sanad, arrested on December 1st, 2015 when apparently she was 14 years old. According to Israeli media, which I trust 1000 times more than I do the Arab media or any ‘Human rights’ related reports (now even more than ever) – she was detained after being suspected of planning a stabbing attack. She was released after a month, not before accusing the soldiers of incriminating her and even trying to murder her.” That may be, but Hagit includes a screenshot not of an Israeli source, but of another Arabic media outletthat identifies her as Sabreen Mujahid Sanad, although it uses a different photo, and so it must be conceded that they could be lying as well.
It appears as if there was one incident in 2015 of a Palestinian girl who was arrested for carrying a knife, and the Palestinian media made this into at least five more incidents, reusing the original photo each time. This would be comical were it not for its potentially lethal effects: the international media is far too uncritical when reporting from Palestinian sources. The low opinion that Western leftists generally have of Israel is a direct result of the negative coverage the Jewish state routinely gets in the establishment media, and that coverage depends in large part on what Palestinians tell Western journalists. Whoever Sabreen/Salwa/Manar/Tasnim/Afnan/anonymous really is, she could end up putting more than a few innocent people in danger.
HOORAY Robert Spencer!
THESE BULLETS HIT MY HOUSE!...............
Funny, that woman you show in that photo, appears in this article I was just seeing at one of the links that was posted in the article above:
Translation of that page:
Ramallah/PNN - The Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club revealed the names of 51 female detainees from Gaza, who are detained in (Damoun) prison.
The Authority and the Club explained in a press statement, today, Thursday, that these names available until the end of last week, including elderly women and children, but the number of female detainees from Gaza is higher than this number, but the clear data relates to the female detainees in (Damoun) prison only.
The statement indicated that only their names are available about the detainees, and some data provided by the detainees about their conditions, as they face abuse and humiliation over time, and they are detained in tragic conditions, like all Gaza detainees, as the institutions were not able to know any accurate data about their numbers, And their places of detention, or their health conditions, as the occupation continues to practice the crime of enforced disappearance against them, and prevents legal teams affiliated with human rights institutions from visiting them and learning about their conditions, and also refuses to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit them.
He pointed out that the only data announced by the occupation prisons administration was the presence of 661 Gaza detainees, whom it classified as “unlawful combatants.”
It is noteworthy that many testimonies were carried by Gaza detainees, after their release, and reflected a high level of torture and abuse carried out by the occupation army against them, which was visible on their bodies immediately after their release, in addition to the occupation media revealing the martyrdom of a group of Gaza detainees in the (Sde Teman) camp. ) in the Beersheba area, without revealing their identities, noting that the occupation recently admitted to executing a Gaza detainee.
The statement touched on the photos and videos published by the occupation of Gaza detainees being held naked and in conditions degrading to human dignity, noting that after October 7, the occupation announced the martyrdom of two detainees who were Gaza workers, and the fate of one of them, Majed Zaqoul, was not revealed. Revealing the fate of the other person who was martyred, according to the occupation media, in the Anatot camp.
Since the beginning of its aggression against the Gaza Strip, the occupation authorities have implemented some military orders and legal amendments related to Gaza detainees, which contribute to the implementation of more crimes against them, especially in light of their continued denial of access to a lawyer.
Fears are rising about the fate of Gaza detainees in light of the continuation of the crime of enforced disappearance, despite all the demands and appeals made by institutions to international human rights bodies, led by the United Nations, in order to reveal the fate of the detainees.
It is noteworthy that the total number of detainees in the occupation prisons until the end of December was 8,800, and the number of administrative detainees was 3,291.
The following are the names of Gaza’s female detainees held in Damoun Prison:
Saida Wael Atta Salah Al-Sharafi
Nima Abu Al-Khair Muhammad Saadallah
Iman Ibrahim Mahmoud Mahfouz
Aseel Hatem Youssef Abu Zaida
Zarifa Muhammad Kamel Salami
Lina Abdullah Ahmed Tubail
Afnan Sarhan Muhammad Nasrallah
Hanan Faisal Musa
Heba Saleh Ghaben
Abeer Qasim Ghabun
Jihan Faisal Musa
Fahmiya Saeed Antar, 82-year-old elderly woman
King Akram Salman Abu Madian
Souad Shehadeh Abu Shamla
Fatima Saeed Abu Shamla
Sarah Saeed Abu Shamla
Yousra Saadi Abu Al-Khair
Tuqa Ahmed Abu Al-Khair
The prostration of Ahmed Abu Al-Khair
Suheir Saeed Maqadmeh
Manar Kamal Maqadmeh
King Kamal Maqadmeh
Princess Sakhr Atta Abu Al-Zaro
Camellia Shehada Hassan is mute
Hadeel Youssef Issa Al-Dahdouh
Aya Saeed Abu Shamla
Nima Nasser Hamouda
Hoda Ibrahim Abu Shamla
Nima Saeed Abu Shamla
Iman Saeed Abu Shamla
Enas Abdel Raouf Abu Al-Zour
Lamia Atta Abu Al-Zour
Elham Fathi Al-Borno
Rania Riad Al-Borno
Nour Zuhair Shinbari
Wafaa Nabil Sobh
Ola Nahed Shinbari
Raeda Asaad Abdel-Al
Suhad Ahmed Khouli
Iman Ahmed Al-Borno
Shaima Ahmed Khouli
Khadra Ahmed Abu Halima
Kholoud Hanouneh
Enas Ahmed Badwan
Navin Nasser Al-Najjar
Fatima Muhammad Abdel Aziz
Faten Ismail Abu Nasser
Nabila Nabil Miqdad
Shatha Ali Abu Dalal
Ghada Hassan Kharoub
Perfect black jihad
[[.]Since Oct. 7, the public has been inundated with allegations of Israeli atrocities and human rights abuses]]
Lies that are all inspired by the left’s master, Satan.
BTTT
Same trick the muslims used during the Kosovo War - endless lines passing through a mountain village, then off camera, winding down the mountain & back up to the village.
Western media ate it up. “Look at all the poor refugees those evil Serbians have displaced”, they cried!
Those sneaky Jews aren’t firing the bullets, they’re throwing them.
LMAO that was you? I’ve saved it all these years.
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