The images seen around the world on May 15, when a 12-storey building in Gauze, which houses the offices of the Associated Press news agency and the Al Jazeera television network, collapsed after being attacked by Israeli missiles.
The Israel claimed for this action that, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas hid an electronic interception system inside the house in Gaza City, whose leveling caused outrage.
The ambassador of the Jewish state in the USA, Gilad Erdan, visited yesterday (07/06) in New York the executives of the American news agency Associated Press (AP), one of the media that housed their offices in this building that was leveled in May 15 during hostilities between Israel and Hamas. The Al-Jazeera television news network also had offices inside the building.
The Israeli military has claimed that Hamas military equipment, which controls the Gaza Strip, was inside a skyscraper bombed by Israeli warplanes, but gave no evidence.
The AP and Al-Jazeera unequivocally condemned the bombing, which took place after the employees were first informed to the specific media, in order to evacuate the building.
According to an announcement by the Israeli embassy and as broadcast by APE-MPE, Erdan “informed” AP executives that Hamas “used the building to develop new equipment that could endanger the Iron Dome”, the Israeli defense missile system.
According to the Israeli authorities, The skyscraper housed “Hamas’ military intelligence services, its research and development department and a technology unit.”
“This unit has developed an electronic interference system for use against the Iron Dome defense system,” the ambassador said in a statement issued today, citing an “imminent threat to Israeli civilians” justifying the bombing, according to the Jewish state.
Willing to “restore relations between Israel and the AP”, the ambassador stressed that he did not believe that the news agency “knew” the presence of this “secret unit” inside the building. He also promised that Israel intended to “help the AP rebuild its offices in Gaza.”
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