{"id":68814,"date":"2019-03-24T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68814"},"modified":"2019-03-23T16:14:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:14:33","slug":"31-05-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68814","title":{"rendered":"Experts reveal lies: UN knew of militant activity on Gaza border."},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"20%\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jns.org\/images\/logo_desktop.svg\"><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/experts-reveal-lies-un-knew-of-militant-activity-on-gaza-border-but-did-not-report-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Experts reveal lies: UN knew of militant activity on Gaza border, but did not report it<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ELIANA RUDEE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>All the way from Oregon, Joe Truzman disproved major points in the recently released U.N. Human Rights Council report\u2014namely, that many of the report\u2019s \u201cvictims\u201d shot by soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force were actually members of militant groups, including Hamas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jns.org\/uploads\/2019\/03\/47412526491_a8e8150883_h-880x495.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Jon Truzman addressing a session by the watchdog group UN Watch in Geneva, Switzerland on the UNHRC&#8217;s report on Gaza. Credit: UN Watch.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span class=\"dateline\">(March 22, 2019&nbsp;\/&nbsp;JNS)<\/span>&nbsp;After testifying at the United Nations below the Human Rights Council plenary earlier this week, Joe Truzman, an expert on Palestinian militant groups active on the Gaza border with Israel, maintained that his own story shows the obvious pitfalls\u2014and perhaps dishonest intentions\u2014of the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Truzman, native of a Portland, Ore., began following and researching militants groups in Gaza since the start of the 2014 Gaza war. Beginning as a hobby, Truzman learned how the militant factions operated in Gaza and about their presence on social media using open source data. Years later, Truzman has expanded his sources (about which he remains tightlipped) and has successfully infiltrated online groups in which Palestinian terrorists discuss their militant activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">When protests on the Gaza border, deemed the \u201cMarch of Return,\u201d began on March 30, 2018, Truzman noticed major gaps between what he saw was happening at the border versus what was shown in the media and reported on in the U.N.\u2019s Commission of Inquiry (COI).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Concerned that \u201cthe media isn\u2019t getting the full picture,\u201d Truzman jumped into action, finding pictures and videos showing inaccuracies in coverage, such as Palestinian border units that were active in attempting to infiltrate the security fence, launching incendiary and explosive-laden kites and balloons into Israel, and militants throwing grenades at the fence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">All the way from Portland, Truzman disproved major points in the recently released U.N. Human Rights Council report\u2014namely, that many of the report\u2019s \u201cvictims\u201d shot by soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force were actually members of militant groups, including Hamas. Following are militants&nbsp;who Truzman showed were falsely characterized in the reports as \u201cvictims of IDF gunfire\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Mahmoud Abu Taima:&nbsp;The U.N. report&nbsp;claims that Taima was killed approximately 150 meters from the fence, but the report failed to mention he was a fighter of Hamas\u2019s military wing, sAl-Qassam Brigades, as&nbsp;listed on one of their&nbsp;websites.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Abed Hawajri:&nbsp;The report notes that Hawajri was shot in the abdomen 150 meters from the fence, but neglects Hawajri\u2019s affiliation with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). Hawajri was a field a commander in the DFLP\u2019s&nbsp;military wing and was one of the founders of&nbsp;the ground in the Nusierat camp in Gaza. Video evidence shows&nbsp;that&nbsp;DFLP militants surrounded his funeral.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Jihad Abu Jamous:&nbsp;The Commission of Inquiry&nbsp;stated in its report that&nbsp;Jamous was shot in the head approximately 300 meters from the security fence, but did not mention that he was a militant in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Jamous was also a field commander of the al-Amoudi Brigade, a branch of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Ahmed Sha\u2019ar:&nbsp;Sha\u2019ar was&nbsp;described in the commission\u2019s report as a child killed by the IDF on May 14, 2018. Evidence from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad website reveals that Sha\u2019ar was a fighter&nbsp;in Saraya al-Quds, the militant wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Truzman pointed out that he has other examples that he didn\u2019t have time to mention in his address to the United Nations, including Naji Abu Hajir, who the Commission of Inquiry mentioned as a mechanic and killed by IDF gunfire. \u201cThere was nothing about him and his affiliation with Hamas\u2019s military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades,\u201d Truzman told JNS. \u201cIt took me only a few minutes to find that he was a militant,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Despite having \u201csolid evidence of militant activity at the border,\u201d the media opted for the \u201cpeaceful civilian protesters killed by the IDF\u201d narrative that was also adopted by the one-sided U.N. report on Israel\u2019s \u201cassault\u201d on \u201ccivilian protesters\u201d at the Gaza border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Truzman concluded&nbsp;that the&nbsp;inquiry\u2019s misleading identification of militants as civilian victims&nbsp;led to a skewed perception of the Israeli response. The report accused Israeli soldiers of \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d and called on the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights \u201cto manage the dossiers on alleged perpetrators [IDF soldiers] to be provided to the International Criminal Court.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The fact that he could disprove important facts in a major report from the comfort of his home with just a phone and a tablet within \u201ca few weeks\u201d became a red flag to Truzman that \u201csomething is definitely wrong\u201d with the United Nations. Evidence the United Nations had that \u201cshould have changed their claims in the human-rights council\u2019s report\u201d were either \u201cwillfully ignored or they deemed it insufficient,\u201d he said. \u201cThe U.N. should be an institution of reliability and honesty\u2014none of which they are right now, especially regarding the COI\u2019s \u2018March of Return\u2019 report.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Truzman was not the only one to maintain that specific evidence was ignored by the United Nations. Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, told JNS, \u201cI was one of the few\u2014perhaps the only\u2014independent military expert who gave evidence to the commission. Because my evidence did not fit with their anti-Israel agenda, it was ignored.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kemp posed that the U.N. Human Rights Council \u201cnever intended for their Commission of Inquiry to get at the truth about the violence on the Gaza border, hence the mandate given to it, which was blatantly and unashamedly skewed against the Jewish state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Moreover, he said, \u201cfailure to criticize or even accept Hamas\u2019s role in inciting and organizing this violence\u201d is not only \u201cunfair\u201d to Israel, it could set a dangerous precedent with real implications \u201cencouraging further bloodshed and killing, in effect making it and the council an instrument of Hamas terrorism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The former commander welcomed the British Foreign Secretary\u2019s re-affirmation on Thursday that the United Kingdom will vote against all Item 7 resolutions at the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying, \u201cThe U.N. Human Rights Council has proven time and again their implacable opposition to Israel, and this shapes so much of their work, including institutionalizing their day against Israel in the standing agenda Item 7\u2014a form of victimization they impose on no other country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"content-alignment\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\" id=\"watch-description\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts reveal lies: UN knew of militant activity on Gaza border, but did not report it ELIANA RUDEE All the way from Oregon, Joe Truzman disproved major points in the recently released U.N. 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