Did Israel reject a request for 10 extra minutes to vacate the Al Jazeera building in Gaza, before bombing it?
Find out what’s this viral claim all about, and what the FACTS really are!
Claim : Israel Rejected Al Jazeera Request For 10 More Minutes!
A video showing a man pleading with Israeli authorities for 10 more minutes before a building is demolished, is being circulated, together with this message :
Director of Al Jazeera Palestine was begging for extra 10 minutes to Israel Army officer. But he refused to give any extra time and destroyed the Al Jazeera Building in Palestine in minutes.
They asked them to evacuate the building first and then used GPS Coordinate guided Bombs to destroy the Al Jazeera Palestine Head office building. The punishment is for broadcasting Fake news about Israel.
Did Israel Reject Al Jazeera Request For 10 Extra Minutes? Not Quite…
Irrespective of our views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we must agree that they should be based on facts.
We investigated this video and claim, and here are the FACTS :
Fact #1 : That Is Not The Director Of Al Jazeera Palestine
The man in the video is not the director of Al Jazeera Palestine.
He is Jawad Mahdi – the owner of the al-Jalaa building that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on 15 May 2021.
Fact #2 : There Is No Al Jazeera Palestine, Or Al Jazeera Building
There is no organisation known as Al Jazeera Palestine, or a building called Al Jazeera Building.
The building in the video is the al-Jalaa, a 12-storey office tower which hosted the bureau offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera in Gaza.
Fact #3 : Israel Gave Them One Hour To Vacate
The IDF gave al-Jalaa occupants an hour to vacate the building. They would normally drop “roof knocker” bombs as a final warning before destroying the building.
However, it is impossible for anyone to vacate such a large building in such a short time frame, with anything more than some belongings.
Fact #4 : Israel Rejected The Request For 10 Extra Minutes
Jawad Mahdi was seen in the video asking an Israeli intelligence officer for an additional 10 minutes, so that four journalists can go in to retrieve their belongings.
The Israeli intelligence officer rejected his request, and the video shows the building collapsing after being bombed.
Fact #5 : Israel Claimed Hamas Secretly Used The Building
IDF and the Israeli government claimed that Hamas secretly used the building for “military intelligence purposes” and a unit operating out of the building had been “conducting sabotage operations against the IDF”.
However, they did not offer any evidence, or explain why it was justifiable to demolish a 12-storey office building that was “secretly” being used by Hamas.
It was also not explained why it was not possible to give journalist the extra 10 minutes to retrieve their belongings, when they had no issue giving the other occupants (and the secret Hamas operatives inside) an hour to evacuate the building.
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