Wednesday, May 22, 2024

AP debunks Chaim Otmazgin.

As fake as the "40 beheaded babies that were then cooked in an oven" story.

NPR: An Israeli responder's work on Oct. 7 shows the challenges of investigating atrocities.

By the time first responders reached the site of the Nova rave, it was 10 p.m., and the rockets and gunfire were still ringing out.

The bodies were everywhere — hundreds of bloodied young men and women, still dressed in their party clothes — in what authorities would later determine was the single deadliest site of the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7.

Among the responders there that night was Chaim Otmazgin[.]

The Independent: Takeaways from AP examination of how 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 originated.

Though the number of assaults is unclear, photo and video from the attack’s aftermath have shown bodies with legs splayed, clothes torn and blood near their genitals.

Other accounts from that day, however, proved to be untrue. They include two debunked testimonies from volunteers with the Israeli search and rescue organization ZAKA, whose stories helped fuel a global clash over whether sexual violence occurred during the attack and on what scale.
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[...]AP’s examination of Zaka’s handling of the now debunked stories shows how information can be clouded and distorted in the chaos of the conflict.
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One account that turned out to be unfounded came from Chaim Otmazgin, a ZAKA volunteer who collected bodies after the attack.

Ahram Online: 8 months later: Israeli who reported on Hamas 7 October 'sexual violence' recants account to AP.

In the frantic hours, days and weeks that followed the Hamas attack, [Chaim Otmazgin's] testimony ricocheted across the world.

But it turns out that what Otmazgin thought had occurred in the home at the kibbutz hadn’t happened.

Also numerous atrocities accounts on 7 October, like Otmazgin’s, proved untrue.

“It’s not that I invented a story,” Otmazgin told The Associated Press in an interview, detailing the origins of his initial explosive claim, one of two by ZAKA volunteers about sexual violence that turned out to be unfounded.

Al Bawaba: False claims of Hamas sexual violence on October 7 exposed: AP investigation.

Chaim Otmazgin's widely circulated accounts of such acts were found to be baseless. Similarly, Yossi Landau, an Israeli volunteer in the Be'eri settlement, recounted a scandalous story about the events of October 7, which also proved to be unfounded.

This alleged 8-month old video surfaces now? Edited by Israel with the claim, it's just so awful we had to delete some of it? I call BS. Just like the 40 dead Shake 'n Bake baby story. 

These debunked tales told by Israel and their accomplices only adds fuel to doubting future claims of, "This is what happened, really, believe us this time."

All of these Israeli propagandists and politicians need to be held accountable for their lies. Same holds true for Palestinians, Gazans, their U.S. political enablers and global puppet-masters. Good luck waiting for that day to happen.

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