Summary
The chairman of EuroMed Monitor, whose statements Debunking the Genocide Allegations gives in Chapter 8 as its example of that organisation’s disregard for truth in favour of Hamas’s resistance narrative, while Lee Mordechai relies extensively on his tweets (Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025, PDF p.179).
Details
- Abdo claimed Hamas held only a few dozen hostages, most of them “soldiers”, aligning with Hamas’s position that any Israeli over 18 is a soldier, and described the kidnapped Yotam Hayim, Alon Shmariz and Samer Taalalka, who died from IDF fire in northern Gaza, as soldiers; in the work’s account all three were civilians kidnapped from surrounding kibbutzim, and Taalalka was a Bedouin resident of Hura who never served in the IDF (PDF p.179).
- He asserted that no Israeli women were raped on October 7, a claim the work calls decisively refuted by extensive forensic evidence and by the findings of the “Dinah Project” (PDF p.179).
- In May 2025 he claimed some aid trucks entering Gaza were carrying burial shrouds “as a prelude to mass death”, a statement the work calls entirely devoid of factual basis (PDF p.179).
Related pages
Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025, EuroMed Monitor, Lee Mordechai