Consortium News: 29-04-2025,
Imagine how this would have been reported if Russian soldiers had executed Ukrainians in this way. Not like this, you can be sure.
Israeli forces in Rafah in May 2024. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0)
By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.net
Here is yet another example of stunningly craven journalism from The Guardian, entirely illustrative of what is going on across the British establishment media in its coverage of Israeli war crimes in Gaza for the past 18 months.
We are now a month on from Israel executing 15 paramedics and hiding their bodies in a mass grave. Since then, video footage has surfaced of that atrocity, showing Israeli soldiers firing on a convoy of emergency vehicles that were clearly marked and with their warning lights on.
We have had postmortems of the victims showing they were shot from close-range in the head and torso. And we’ve had eye-witness accounts of the killings.
All of that, of course, is on top of compelling circumstantial evidence. Israel sought to destroy the evidence of its war crime by crushing the emergency vehicles and then burying them, along with the bodies of the 15 crew members, presumably in the hope that they would decompose and make it hard to forensically determine exactly what had happened.
The latest evidence to emerge,