Israeli settlers attacked with stones dozens of Palestinian vehicles in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian official said Sunday.Hmmm..Ghassan Daghlas' name sounds familiar.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that the settlers pelted vehicles with stones and empty bottles smashing windshields of dozens of vehicles.
In February, he claimed that Israelis burned six Arab cars. It was a lie - they were burned by Arabs in a dispute and then evidence was fabricated to blame Israelis.
In October, he claimed that religious Israeli Jews cut down 100 olive trees - on Shabbat.
He did the same here. And he claimed that settlers torched a car on a Shabbat here.
Once he claimed that Jews put up a poster in the middle of an Arab village calling to destroy a mosque. Yet for some reason he could not produce a photo of these posters.
In 2010 he claimed settlers uprooted 200 olive trees, and again the report was found to be false - although Jewish crops were burned at that time!
A quick search shows that Ma'an quotes Daghlas over 200 times since 2008, and yet I do not recall ever seeing a any independent evidence of any of his anti-Israel charges. Almost never are there photos of these alleged attacks, even though everyone has a camera on their cell phones nowadays.But he is quoted, time and time again, uncritically, even though many of his accusations are proven lies.
The funniest part is that Ma'an illustrates some of his false accusations with photos of Arabs attacking Jews!