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On Monday, February 12, a young Palestinian man named Jamal Abu Al-Ola who had been sheltering in a hospital in southern Gaza was seized and detained by the Israeli military. 

The next day, Al-Ola reappeared at the hospital dressed head to toe in a hazmat suit with his hands bound and showing signs of having been beaten. He was there to deliver a warning from the Israel Defense Forces: “Get out of the hospital, you need to get out of the hospital because they are going to blow it up.”

Then, as instructed by his captors, he walked back toward the hospital gate, where he was shot dead as his mother looked on. Others who obeyed the IDF warning and left the hospital appear to have been fired on as well.

Benjamin Netanyahu claims that the Israeli army is “the most moral army in the world” that “does everything to avoid harming those not involved.” And far too many major news outlets in the U.S. reinforce these myths by passing unverified claims and propaganda from the Israeli government as neutral fact.

The killing of Jamal Abu Al-Ola, which The Intercept independently corroborated through multiple eyewitness accounts, photos, and videos, is just one of countless atrocities that have occurred during Israel’s brutal siege of Gaza — atrocities that the mainstream U.S. media has ignored.

That’s why The Intercept’s reporting is so necessary right now to continue to expose the brutal atrocities being committed nearly every day by the IDF with the support of the U.S. government.

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