OK, I can certainly respect your desire to scrutinize the veracity of anyone's account. After all, it's why I am disregarding all media sources and all politically conflicted organizations. As for your initial scrutiny of eyewitnesses to the IDF opening fire, I can think of several reasons why I might do exactly as you did initially. My issue then becomes how you are not applying the exact same standards to Israel, i.e. you are committing a special pleading fallacy. You haven't responded to volsrock's OP in the exact same way, i.e. declaring that we shouldn't just be taking Israel's front organization (GFH) on their word, especially when they are obviously lying. Neither you nor I doubted the eyewitnesses (who we did not know) of the 2020 election stealing, who presented sworn affidavits, and here we have eyewitnesses for whom we have no reason to doubt (we don't know them either) ... and yet you imply that I should somehow immediately dismiss that eyewitness testimony and allow myself to be manipulated by Israel. Could you elaborate on why I should do that?
I totally get it. You are in the right to scrutinize to whatever extent you see fit. The problem comes when you simply reject eyewitness testimony for which you presently have no reason to doubt (you do not know Mohammed Abu Teaima) and automatically embrace the word of lying terrorists in mid-genocide.
That is my issue here. I do not question your right to doubt and to question. It's the double standard that is immedately problematic, and is what I am trying to ameliorate by focusing on eyewitnesses.
Why don't we discuss what the eyewitnesses say, and then discuss why we shouldn't believe them. I, for one, want to know if the reason I shouldn't trust eyewitnesses that are Arabs is because they are Arabs.