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Israeli Mother of Dead Hostage Accuses Israeli Troops of Killing Her Son with Poison Gas

HeadlineJan 31, 2024

The mother of an Israeli hostage who died in Gaza has accused the Israeli military of killing her son by pumping poison gas into a tunnel where he was being held. In December, Dr. Maayan Sherman said Israeli officials had told her that her son Ron had been murdered by Hamas in Gaza, but she started questioning what happened after a pathologist revealed a CT scan showed Ron’s body had no injuries. In a Facebook post, Maayan Sherman wrote, “The inquiry’s findings: Ron was indeed murdered. Not by Hamas … not by stray bullets and not in an exchange of fire. This was deliberate murder. Bombing with poison gas.”

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