{"id":120580,"date":"2023-10-25T14:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120580"},"modified":"2023-10-25T14:49:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:49:03","slug":"hard-left-labour-mp-zarah-sultana-fact-checked-as-israel-post-sparks-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/hard-left-labour-mp-zarah-sultana-fact-checked-as-israel-post-sparks-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard-left Labour MP Zarah Sultana fact-checked as Israel post sparks backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hard-left Labour MP Zarah Sultana has been fact-checked over an Israel social media post.<\/p>\n
The Coventry South MP took to X, formerly known as Twitter, following a blast at a Gaza hospital earlier this month.<\/p>\n
She blamed an Israeli airstrike for the deadly incident at the Al-Ahli hospital, where hundreds of people are believed to have been killed.<\/p>\n
But Rishi Sunak has since said the blast was likely caused by a missile launched from within Gaza towards Israel.<\/p>\n
A community note has now been added to her post, which has sparked criticism from other users including calls for Sir Keir Starmer to strip her of the Labour whip.<\/p>\n
Ms Sultana said on October 17: “More than 500 people are reported to have been killed after an Israeli airstrike hit a hospital in Gaza.<\/p>\n
“Political leaders of all parties \u2013 including my own \u2013 must call for an urgent ceasefire and an end to the war on Gaza.<\/p>\n
“More innocent lives must not be lost.”<\/p>\n
But the community note reads: “US, Canadian, French and UK intelligence services have analysed the evidence and concluded that the blast was caused by a Palestinian rocket and not an Israeli airstrike.”<\/p>\n
Labour MP Andrew McDonald has also been urged to apologise and delete a tweet claiming Israel was responsible for the bombing.<\/p>\n
Speaking in the Commons on Monday, the Prime Minister said that the Government had been assessing the cause of the al Ahli atrocity since last week.<\/p>\n
He told MPs that it was “likely caused by a missile, or part of one, that was launched from within Gaza towards Israel”.<\/p>\n
Hamas had blamed an Israeli airstrike, but the Israeli military said it was a misfiring rocket from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.<\/p>\n