Pallywood Payola: Hamas paid Gaza family to lie about baby being killed by Israeli tear gas
And the international media was all too willing to play along.
Pallywood is the industry of anti-Israel activists who spread fake images, stories and so on meant to portray Israelis in the worst possible light. Often the fakery is by western activists — you don’t have to be Palestinian to engage in Pallywood.
In all the dozens of Pallywood instances we have documented, I don’t think any has been as cruel as the claim that dominated headlines recently that a 8-month-old Palestinian infant, Laila Anwar al-Ghandour, was killed by Israeli tear gas during “protests” at the Gaza-Israel border.
It was false, as we documented in Cruel Pallywood: Hamas Health Ministry withdraws claim Israeli tear gas killed baby.
Yet being caught in a lie was just the cost of doing business for Pallywood. The narrative traveled a thousand times around the globe, and inspired international outrage, before the truth came out.
But it gets worse.
It turns out that Hamas paid the baby’s family to lie about the cause of death.
The Times of Israel reports:
A 20-year-old Palestinian indicted Thursday on terror-related charges told Israeli investigators during his interrogation that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar paid his relatives to falsely tell the media that his baby cousin died of tear gas inhalation….
The suspect also disclosed that he was related to Layla Ghandour, the 8-month-old baby whose May 14 death was originally reported to have been caused by inhalation of tear gas sprayed by Israeli forces at Gaza border protesters. The story of the baby’s purported death at the hands of Israel dominated global media at the time, becoming one of the central elements of reporting on Palestinian opposition to the May 14 inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem.
According to the indictment, Omar told authorities that two weeks prior to his arrest, he was among the 40,000 Gazans taking part in the May 14 protests at the border when his mother called to inform him that his baby cousin had died.
Upon arriving home shortly thereafter, the suspect was told that Layla had died of a blood disease similar to the one that took the life of the deceased infant’s brother, who succumbed to the condition at the same age in 2017.
However, Omar told authorities, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar paid Layla’s parents, Miriam and Anwar Ghandour, NIS 8,000 ($2,206) to tell the media that the infant had died due to tear gas inhalation at the Gaza protests.
Sinwar, released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap, has been present at the Gaza border protests, though always from a safe distance.
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Leila al-Ghandour, the baby from #Gaza, DIED TWICE:
First from the fatal blood disease from which she suffered, and later by #Hamas making her family lie about the reason of her death, paying them to blame Israel for it. pic.twitter.com/Iex7YwFWaN
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) June 21, 2018
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…a 8-month-old Palestinian infant, Laila Anwar al-Ghandour, was killed by Israeli tear gas during “protests” at the Gaza-Israel border.
The parents (supposedly) take their 8-month-old baby to border “protests”?
They should have followed the example of the brave Hamas leader who “has been present at the Gaza border protests, though always from a safe distance.”
The story was that the mother had left the baby with her (the mother’s) brothers while she went to the dentist and the rest of the family went to the riot. When the baby started fussing one of the young brothers, thinking the mother was at the riot too, decided to take the baby and look for her. He put on a good show for the press, sobbing in remorse for having taken her there and blaming himself for her death.
Shouldn’t CNN just acquire Pallywood? Or vice versa? Why duplicate effort?
Um, that doesn’t make sense. Pallywood is not a company, it’s a technique, which CNN, Reuters, AP, AFP, BBC, etc. all know about and fully cooperate with.
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