Hamas refutes occupation claims regarding “Al-Tabi’in” massacre: false and misleading

Gaza - Ma'an - Hamas confirmed that the narrative of the occupation "army" about the martyrs of the massacre of the Tabeen School, which it carried out at dawn on Saturday in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, is misleading and false. The movement indicated in a statement that the occupation's announcement of a list of 19 martyrs, who it claimed were resistance activists, out of more than 100 civilians killed in cold blood by the occupation, is nothing more than an attempt to justify its heinous crime, in light of the widespread international criticism of it. The movement confirmed that the allegations of the occupation "army" are false and baseless, and that among those who were martyred in the massacre, not a single militant was among them, and they were all civilians who were targeted while performing the dawn prayer. Hamas pointed out that the aforementioned list of 19 includes children, civil servants, university professors, and religious men, and most of them have no connection to any political or military work. The movement stressed in its statement that the massacre in the Al-Daraj neighborhood is one of thousands of massacres committed by the occupation in the Gaza Strip, in which it deliberately and intentionally targeted defenseless civilians, explaining that "it deliberately spreads such lies after every massacre it carries out, to justify its heinous crimes, which has become clear to every observer." In a separate statement, Hamas viewed the statements made by British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, commenting on the massacre, in which he called on the movement to stop endangering civilians, as a heinous alignment with the occupation's false narrative that claims schools and displacement centers are being used for military purposes, with the aim of justifying the targeting of civilians. The movement considered the British Foreign Secretary's statements a blatant attempt to evade his country's legal, political and moral responsibility for the continuation of this brutal genocide, by continui ng to provide political and military support to the occupation. Hamas recalled what humanitarian organizations, the United Nations and its organizations have monitored through their reports, of horrific crimes against unarmed civilians in cities, camps, schools, hospitals and shelters, in which the number of martyrs has reached nearly forty thousand, more than two-thirds of whom are women and children. While the movement condemned these positions complicit in the massacre, it called on Minister Lamy, the British government, and Western governments, headed by the US administration, to immediately back down from this path that makes them an actual partner in war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in the Gaza Strip, and to pressure the occupation government to stop the deliberate massacres against civilians. Hamas renewed its call to the United Nations and the international community to form international investigation committees, enter the Gaza Strip and the shelters and displacement centers, verify the false allegations of the occupation army, and expose its ongoing crimes. Source: Maan News Agency