Max Blumenthal makes the explosive proposition that the Israeli military shelled the homes of Israeli civilians and made helicopter attacks on civilian cars and Israeli bases as they fought to dislodge Hamas militants from the country’s south on October 7. Based on 1st person accounts and other Israeli sources, he argues that the substantiated death count is only about 900 and not around 1400 as Israel claims. Most significantly, he suggests that an undertermined proportion of these deaths might have been self-inflicted, resulting from Israeli military protocols that are aimed at meeting Palestinian incursions with devastating force and also at minimizing hostage negotiation situations. He concluded, “Indeed, it appears that on October 7, Israel’s military resorted to the same tactics it has employed against civilians in Gaza, driving up the death toll of its own citizens with the indiscriminate use of heavy weapons.”

https://newsparadigm.substack.com/p/max-blumenthal-october-7-testimonies