In the wake of the death of the baby, Gaza Health Ministry officials stated that she died from inhaling tear gas that was fired by Israeli military during mass demonstrations in the Gaza Strip.
According to Haaretz, Israeli prosecutors filed an indictment Thursday against a Gaza Strip resident, Mahmoud Omar, who was caught attempting to “infiltrate” the Jewish state and appeared to be related to a baby girl who died last month.
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While being interrogated in Israel, Omar allegedly said that the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, paid the minor's family 8,000 shekels ($2,200) to lie about the cause of the baby's death and claim that the eight-month-old died from exposure to tear gas that had been used by Israeli forces in an attempt to disperse Palestinian protesters.
Even though the family announced that the baby girl, Layla al-Ghandour, had died of a blood disorder, the allegations against the Israeli troops were also unearthed.
Responding to the reports, the Israeli army questioned the claims, stating that they had “evidence that undermines the credibility of the Palestinian Ministry of Health's announcement regarding the death of the baby.”
The indictment suggests that on the day the baby died, Omar was participating in a rally near the Gaza border with Israel, and it was his mother that…
