Israel's War Against Hamas - Updates

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In a separate tweet, @HodaJannat writes:
Suddenly we discovered that Gaza, which is inhabited by 2 million people… has 36 hospitals.
There are Arab countries with 30 million citizens and do not have this number of hospitals.

? Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was getting water, electricity, gas, and fuel for free from Israel.
Of course, there is no Arab citizen who does not pay water, electricity and fuel bills.

? Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was receiving $30 million a month from Qatar alone
And $120 million a month from UNRWA
And $50 million a month from the European Union
And 30 million dollars a month from America.
There are Arab countries drowning in debt and cannot find anyone to help them, even with one million dollars.

? Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was not besieged, and all goods were entering it, as were foreigners and people of foreign nationalities. Its residents were traveling to Egypt and from there to the rest of the world, and Fafo is the biggest example.

? Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was living better than many Arab countries…and its people were living better than many Arab peoples.

Suddenly…we discovered that our minds were besieged by a programmed lie…by the (Muslim) Brotherhood media.

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The Gaza You Thought You Knew versus The Real Gaza

Hoda Jannat: "Suddenly we discovered that Gaza, which is inhabited by 2 million people... has 36 hospitals. There are Arab countries with 30 million citizens and do not have this number of hospitals.

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The Washington Postwrites:

Palestinian officials said Tuesday that Israel had returned the bodies of 80 people it had held during the Gaza war via the Kerem Shalom border crossing. The Hamas-run government media office said Israel had not identified the bodies or said where they had been taken from. They had been “mutilated,” the media office said in a statement, and there were “clear” indications that organs had been “stolen” from the corpses.

The claims could not be independently verified. The Israel Defense Forces referred questions about the bodies to the Israeli agency for civilian coordination with the Palestinians, which did not immediately respond. The corpses, wrapped in blue body bags, were buried Tuesday in a mass grave.

This is not journalism. This is a blood libel pretending to be journalism.
It is impossible to use organs like hearts and kidneys from dead bodies. Tissue donation must be within 24 hours after death and requires a full medical evaluation of the donor beforehand.
In short, it is not just a lie, but a lie that is easily proven to be a lie. Yet the Post didn't bother to take that extra step and actually inform their readers that it is indeed a lie.
Which would also prove that one cannot trust anything Hamas says. That is a real story, and it is one that the news media is loathe to tackle. It continue to give Hamas statements the same gravity that it gives to the IDF.
Israeli officials are (too) professional. They have to chase down these stories and disprove them. It takes time to do that - they need to find and contact the departments that were responsible for the return of the bodies, find out the circumstances of their return, the circumstances of their deaths, what happened to the bodies in between - in short, they need to do an internal investigation to responsibly answer even the most absurd charges, because respected news media is asking for the information and they need to ensure that they don't misstate anything.
It takes minutes for Hamas to make up a lie. It takes dozens of man-hours to debunk them properly. This is an asymmetric cognitive war that Hamas has a huge advantage in - as long as it knows that journalists will take their lies seriously.
A real journalist doesn't simply parrot what a terror organization says. Saying "the claims could not be independently verified" is a way to claim journalistic integrity but in reality it gives the obviously false claims validity. That vaunted journalistic respect for "science" that proves Hamas is lying is missing from this story.

An NBC News tech editor named Ben Goggins posted the organ stealing charges without any skepticism, to the delight of hundreds of antisemites who reposted or "Liked" it.


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"Trust the science:" News media spreading antisemitic blood libel of Israel "stealing organs" from dead Palestinians - which is medically impossible

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Times of Israelreports:

In his first public message since the massacres of October 7, Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar on Monday remained defiant, while grossly inflating the terror group’s achievements in the war.

Sinwar falsely claimed that the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, had “targeted” over 5,000 Israeli soldiers and officers, and killed about third of them — that is, over 1,500.

The actual figure of IDF deaths is one-tenth of what the terror leader alleged. According to the IDF, 156 soldiers have so far been killed in the ground operation in Gaza. Over 300 members of the security forces were killed in Hamas’s initial October 7 onslaught.

The terror leader also gave inflated claims of the number of Israeli soldiers injured in the war, and the amount of Israeli military equipment that has been destroyed. He claimed that around 3,500 troops were seriously wounded or disabled, whereas that figure according to the IDF stands at less than 200.

He further said that Hamas had completely or partially destroyed 750 Israeli military vehicles. While the IDF has not provided official figures, the commander of the IDF Technology and Maintenance Corps, Brig. Gen. Ariel Shima, said in early November that very few IDF vehicles had been severely damaged beyond repair, and that most vehicles that are hit return to fighting.

Al Jazeera published Sinwar's message, and then deleted it. It may be because it was not meant for the public but only as a message to Hamas' political bureau, and Al Jazeera follows Hamas' instructions to the letter.

Certainly no one is reporting that the statement was a hoax.

While the statement has been widely covered in Israeli media as well as Arab media, the liveblogs of mainstream media have not mentioned it as of this writing. Nothing in the New York Times or CNN's liveblogs of the war. Also nothing at NBC or AP, all of which are updated several times a day.

Isn't it newsworthy that the leader of Hamas is Gaza not only breaks his silence, but his message is filled with obvious falsehoods?

If you cannot trust what he says - even when he is reporting to his own superiors abroad - how can anyone trust a word that is ever released by Hamas to the media or the public, ever?

Could it be that the media is reluctant to share this message because it shows that its "he said, she said" reporting where Israeli statements are treated with skepticism while Hamas' statements are given respect hs utterly misled their audiences?

Maybe they will cover the statements, but it will sure be interesting if they mention that Sinwar is obviously lying.

How is the mainstream media covering Sinwar's statement? They aren't.

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• By providing the residents of the Gaza Strip with various services, UNRWA exempted Hamas from its responsibilities as the governing body, such as creating a working economy that would pay for education and healthcare, and allowed it, instead, to invest resources in building tunnels and manufacturing weapons.
• "They [UNRWA] teach us that the Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to us [Muslims], that Palestine belongs to us," said Atif Sharha, a student at an UNRWA school.
• "Yes, they teach us that the Zionists are our enemy," said Nur Taha, a third-year student from Kalandia. "We should carry out an [terror] operation against them [Zionists]."
• "The Palestinian matriculation exams [at UNRWA] have become a finishing school in extremism. It is as if the Palestinian Authority is cramming as much hate into the tests as possible, to ensure the twelve previous years of indoctrination stay with them into adulthood." — Marcus Sheff, CEO at the Institute for Cultural Peace and Tolerance in School Education, i24news.tv, July 23, 2023.
• Despite years of considerable condemnation of the textbooks, newly produced editions, approved by UNRWA, are exponentially worse....
• Whatever hopes that anyone may have held for the trustworthiness of UNRWA have long expired, and were arguably misplaced at the outset. UNRWA, in its current state, has proven itself irremediably defective, unworkable and yet another massive stain on the already scandalously stained UN.
• It is high time for the international community and those who actually want a better future for the Palestinians to liquidate UNRWA and take actions that truly help the Palestinians move forward to a golden life.

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How UNRWA Grooms Terrorists

By providing the residents of the Gaza Strip with various services, UNRWA exempted Hamas from its responsibilities as the governing body, such as creating a working economy that would pay for education and healthcare, and allowed it, instead, to invest

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A man identified as a Palestinian living in Gaza told the Israel Defense Forces on audio tape that Hamas has direct control over the United Nations group coordinating the delivery of humanitarian aid in the territory.

In recordings of the phone call, obtained by The Post, the man accused the troubled Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA, of being under Hamas’ power, telling an IDF officer that the terrorist group has been hogging all the supplies.

“The situation is terrible because the humanitarian people, those responsible for the humanitarian aid, are thieves,” the frustrated Gaza resident said in the recording.

“Hamas has their hands on UNRWA administration workers, and it manages UNRWA,” he alleges. “From the day they [Hamas] rose to power they took control of everything.”

The man also claimed that Hamas has made sure the incoming humanitarian supplies were distributed to its own people first as opposed to the more than one million civilians who have been displaced by the war.

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Hamas is in control of UNRWA aid group in Gaza, Palestinian man says: recording

A Palestinian man living in Gaza told the Israeli Defence Forces that Hamas has direct control over the Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA.

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I guess when you emphasize DEI and that Jews are oppressors there is no room left for, you know, basic history.

So when you see polls showing many Americans seeming to take the Palestinian side - those are the people who know the least about the conflict.

And those who would be most surprised by the logo on this programme of the Palestine Orchestra in 1937-8.

On the other hand, those who can answer this question correctly tend to be the ones who are pro-Israel. Because actual history and facts and the law are on Israel's side.