OPINION
Compare the two headlines:
‘Unequivocal proof’ Hamas used hospital
and
Can you guess which one comes to us from the ABC, Australia’s taxpayer-funded national broadcaster?
One directly asserts (via quotation) that Hamas used a hospital as a base — a war crime. The other seeks to cast doubt by referring to the IDF (whom its audience overwhelmingly hates) and reinforces it with a condemnation of the IDF from the WHO.
Because, once the undeniable fact is established that Hamas used, as it routinely does, hospitals, schools, and other “civilian” infrastructure as shields for its terror activities, much of the “pro-Palestine”, anti-Israel narrative collapses. If these facts are accepted, then it’s logically impossible to accuse Israel of “war crimes” and “violating international law”.
International law is very clear that “an act harmful to the enemy may render a medical establishment or unit liable to attack”. Indeed, the very fact of using a hospital in such a way is a war crime in itself. “A concrete example would be the placing of a medical establishment or unit in proximity to a military objective with the intention of shielding it from enemy’s military operations.”
In other words, it is Hamas which has committed war crimes in spades. Israel has not.
No wonder the left media are trying furiously to deny the undeniable.
It’s the “double war crime” that Israel has been shouting about for decades, proof that Hamas quite literally and obscenely hides behind its own population while indiscriminately attacking civilians just across the border.
The Australian
Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said the troops, who entered the hospital earlier on Wednesday after encircling it for days, had found weapons, combat gear and technological equipment there and were continuing their search.
ABC Australia
The die-hard anti-Semites denying the undeniable might want to remember that Hamas lied through its teeth when its own rocket fell on the same hospital. Israel told the truth. Hamas also lied damnably for much of the past year, pretending it was ready for peace talks, when in fact it was planning a wholescale massacre of Israeli civilians.
Israel has set up humanitarian evacuation corridors for Palestinian civilians to flee the fighting. Hamas kills any civilian who tries to leave.
So, who are you going to believe?
We don’t have to just take Israel’s word for it, either.
The US assessment this week that Hamas and other Palestinian militants were operating within Gaza’s largest hospital complex was based in part on intercepted communications of fighters inside the compound, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
The signals intelligence, which was picked up in recent weeks, was among several pieces of US-gathered information, the people said. And it was among the information that led the White House and Pentagon to announce Tuesday for the first time that the US believed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also known as PIJ, were using al-Shifa Hospital “as a way to conceal and support their military operations and hold hostages.”
The people familiar with the matter declined to provide more details about the US intelligence on al-Shifa, but stressed it was based on multiple streams of data and was collected independently of Israel […]
Later Wednesday, Israel released video footage from the hospital that it said proved the site was being used by Hamas. There were no immediate reports of hostages found inside the hospital.
The Australian
Of course, none of that matters to the useful idiots such as the thoroughly discredited WHO.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says that the Israeli military’s raid of Gaza’s biggest hospital was “totally unacceptable”.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference that patients and staff must be protected even if hospitals were used for military purposes.
“Hospitals are not battlegrounds.”
ABC Australia
Tell that to Hamas, you anti-Semitic, dictator-loving clown.