Israel's War Against Hamas - Updates

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Bibi Netanyahu has given Hamas over a billion dollars through Qatar. The game they play to prevent a 2 state solution is lethal.

Contemporaneous writings from the 1980s are all about the efforts by Palestinian Christians and Muslims to stop the formation of Hamas.

For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces

The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from

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Bibi Netanyahu has given Hamas over a billion dollars through Qatar. The game they play to prevent a 2 state solution is lethal.

Contemporaneous writings from the 1980s are all about the efforts by Palestinian Christians and Muslims to stop the formation of Hamas.

For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces

The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from

www.timesofisrael.com

The money was for humanitarian purposes, stolen by Hamas. Which makes it a totally different thing than your worthless accusations.

Since Israel left Gaza in 2005, the only game played is by Hamas to get more land.

Do not worry. Once this war is over Hamas will be nothing but a part of the terroristic history against Jews and the State of Israel started by Al Husseini in 1920.

An endless failure to make peace with Israel, a momentary success in enriching some of those leaders pockets, and a total failure to care about the lives of millions of the population they allegedly "govern" but use only to get richer and attempt to get more land for Gaza.


They went to the Casino of Land Grabbing, and now lost. Lost it all.

 

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Bibi Netanyahu has given Hamas over a billion dollars through Qatar. The game they play to prevent a 2 state solution is lethal.

Contemporaneous writings from the 1980s are all about the efforts by Palestinian Christians and Muslims to stop the formation of Hamas.

For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces

The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from

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But the Palestinian Muslims were all for Hamas being formed. Any group which could destroy Israel and get the land back into Muslim hands.

 

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More Israeli Arabs feel a part of the State of Israel than ever before​

The latest Israel Democracy Institute survey had one very interesting chart:


The text is even more interesting:

In both the Jewish and Arab samples, this survey found the highest percentage of respondents who feel part of the state since we began asking this question in 2003. In both groups, but especially among Arabs, there has been a very sharp increase relative to the measurement taken in June 2023.

Within the Arab sample, the share of Christians and Druze who feel part of the State of Israel (84%) is markedly higher than that of Muslims (66%), but this share still constitutes a sizable majority in all religious groups. A breakdown by age finds that the largest increase in feeling part of the State of Israel and its problems is among the youngest cohort, aged 18–24 (June, 44%; November, 70%).

Furthermore, of those Arab respondents who feel part of the State of Israel and its problems, 35% are optimistic about the future of the country, compared with just 4% of those who do not feel part of the state.

Israeli Arabs were apparently aghast at Hamas' pogrom, far more so than Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank, who generally cheered the attack.

More Israeli Arabs feel a part of the State of Israel than ever before

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Part 1​

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Why is it so difficult for media to report that Gazans have to lie to them to avoid being murdered by Hamas?​

The New York Times has this headline:


Israel says there are Hamas tunnels under Shifa, and Hamas denies it.

So both sides must be given equal weight, right?

The article isn't terrible once you read it to the end, past all the denials and stories of patient suffering. The evidence for Hamas terrorists at the hospital is overwhelming:

Israel has long maintained that Al Shifa is among the most egregious examples, and its military has pushed its claims hard since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. It has shown reporters what it says is a 3-D representation of the complex, released audio recordings that purport to show Hamas fighters discussing the tunnels under Al Shifa and released two videos of interrogations in which captured militants discuss the tunnels.

A former senior official at Shin Bet, Israeli’s internal security service, said both Hamas and Israeli intelligence referred to the network as “the Metro” and compared the compound under Al Shifa to a major station of the New York subway system.

The former Shin Bet official and two other Israeli officials said the compound included several floors with designated spaces for meetings, living quarters and storage facilities. It can hold at least several hundred people, they said.

Israeli military intelligence said in a statement provided to The New York Times that “there are several underground complexes used by the leaders of the terrorist organization Hamas to direct their activities.” The complex relies in part on electricity diverted from Al Shifa, the statement said, and there are multiple entrances to it in and around the hospital.

Senior Israeli intelligence officials allowed The Times to review photographs that purported to show secret entrances to the compound from inside the hospital. Signs identifying the location as Al Shifa were clearly visible in the photographs, though their authenticity could not be independently verified.

American officials, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose sensitive intelligence, said they are confident that Hamas has used tunnel networks under hospitals, in particular Al Shifa, for command and control areas as well as for weapons storage.

The practice by Hamas has been longstanding, they said, adding that the United States and Israel have independently developed intelligence about Hamas’ use of the tunnel network under Al Shifa Hospital.

There are other accounts of Hamas using Al Shifa, as well. In 2008, armed Hamas fighters in civilian clothing were seen roving the hospital during a three-week war between the militants and Israel, according to New York Times reporting in Gaza at the time. The militants claimed to be security guards, but were seen killing alleged Israeli collaborators.

Six years later, during the next round of fighting between Israel and Hamas, the militants routinely held news conferences on the hospital grounds and used them as a safe meeting place for Hamas officials to speak with journalists, though these activities do not constitute military use.

After the war, Amnesty International said in a report that Hamas was using abandoned areas of Al Shifa, “including the outpatients’ clinic area, to detain, interrogate, torture and otherwise ill-treat suspects, even as other parts of the hospital continued to function as a medical center.”

Why is it so difficult for media to report that Gazans have to lie to them to avoid being murdered by Hamas?

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Part 2

The most famous tunnel in Gaza City is Al-Wahda Street, which Israel bombed in previous wars. You can clearly see the telltale sinkholes from the collapsed tunnels underneath:





Al-Wahda street goes straight to Shifa Hospital:



But the New York Times reports, "The hospital’s director, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, flatly described the Israeli allegations as 'untrue' in an interview on Friday."

Why would they, and so many other doctors, lie to the august newspaper?

In 2014, Radjaa Abu Dagga , a journalist for France's Libération,was interrogated at Shifa:

A few meters from the emergency room where the injured from bombings are constantly flowing, in the outpatient department, he was received in "a small section of the hospital used as administration" by a band of young fighters. They were all well dressed, which surprised Radjaa, "in civilian clothing with a gun under one's shirt and some had walkie-talkies " . He was ordered to empty his pockets, removing his shoes and his belt then was taken to a hospital room "which served that day as the command office of three people."

A man begins his interrogation: "Who are you? Who do you call? What are you doing?" "I was very surprised by the procedure," admits Radjaa, who showed him his press card in response. Questions came. They asked if he speaks Hebrew, he has relations with Ramallah. Young Hamas supporters insistently ask the question: "Are you a correspondent for Israel?" Radjaa repeated that only works for French media and a chain of Algerian radio.

It was then that the three men deliveed this message: "This is yours to choose. We are an executive administration. We will carry the message of Qassams. You have to stay at home and give us your papers. " Stunned to be covered by the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, Radjaa tried to defend himself and especially to understand why such a decision was taken against him. In vain. "It is impossible to communicate with these people," laments the journalist.

Libération then removed the article at Abu Dagga's request, because he was worried for his parents who live in Gaza.

He is not the first nor last journalist threatened by Hamas for reporting something the terror group didn't like.

Now, if journalists are afraid to report the truth about Gaza, all the more so are those who have to work with Hamas day in and day out - like the doctors at Shifa - have to worry about their and their families' lives.

Reuters quotes another doctor:

“The tanks are in front of the hospital. We are under full blockade. It’s a totally civilian area. Only hospital facility, hospital patients, doctors and other civilians staying in the hospital. Someone should stop this," a surgeon at the hospital, Dr Ahmed El Mokhallalati, said by telephone.

But Israel has said that the east side of the hospital is open for people to escape. The doctor is lying. He is forced to say what Hamas wants him to say.

Reuters doesn't bother reporting that.

The New York Times, and Reuters, and NBC News and everyone else knows this. But they still report "both sides" as if the denials of an organization that would murder their own people in a moment are equivalent to years of intelligence and direct evidence.

Why is it so difficult for media to report that Gazans have to lie to them to avoid being murdered by Hamas?

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[ Lies about Israel over the Palestinians leads to ugly scenes like this one ]

 

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The Hamas terrorist organization’s use of civilian hospitals as centers for storing military equipment and planning attacks has been revealed as a serious human rights violation as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) close in on Al Shifa, a major hospital in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has long said the hospital was home to the Palestinian terror group’s main base of operations, as well as cover for the coastal enclave’s complex tunnel system and a hideout for fuel, water, food, and other supplies that were being withheld from Gaza’s civilian population.

Hamas, which rules Gaza, has denied this charge — an increasingly untenable position after this weekend, when Israel’s army took control of the areas immediately surrounding the hospital, holding territory just a block away. At the same time, gunfire emerged from the sprawling hospital complex — where battle has been ensuing — exposing it as a center for Hamas fighters.

The European Union on Sunday lambasted Hamas for using hospitals as “human shields,” calling for civilians to be allowed to leave the area of fighting.

“The EU condemns the use of hospitals and civilians as human shields by Hamas,” the EU said in a statement. “Civilians must be allowed to leave the combat zone. These hostilities are severely impacting hospitals and taking a horrific toll on civilians and medical staff.”

The statement went on to demand the immediate release of the roughly 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas terrorists during their Oct. 7 massacre of southern Israeli communities. The hostages include children and elderly civilians.

Israel has presented an abundance of evidence in recent weeks detailing how Hamas has converted hospitals into operation centers and launchpads for missiles, while shielding the terror group behind the civilians using them.

Al Shifa is not the first hospital in Gaza to be the subject of controversy during the current war.

Last month, a misfired Palestinian rocket from Gaza caused a widely reported explosion near the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, according to intelligence from Israel and several Western governments. Experts agreed that Israel was not responsible, despite Hamas and several media outlets falsely blaming an Israeli air strike for causing the hospital blast.

It is expected that the IDF will take over Al Shifa in the coming days. The Israeli army has already helped to evacuate patients toward southern Gaza, including newborn infants. Much of the hospital staff has also evacuated south, with reports from Gaza saying that the hospital has lost all power and suspended operations after running out of fuel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel had offered fuel to Al Shifa, but that the terrorists had refused to receive it. Several press reports, citing Arab and Western officials, have corroborated Israeli claims that Hamas has been hoarding hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel for rockets and electricity used to power its network of underground tunnels as Gaza hospitals struggle to maintain power.

Meanwhile, Israel announced that 200 million NIS (about $52 million) would be directed to completing the fortification of hospitals around the country, where roughly half are now protected from rocket and missile fire.

Hamas-Controlled Hospitals in Gaza Outed as ‘Human Shields’ Amid Israeli Ground Operations - Algemeiner.com

The Hamas terrorist organization's use of civilian hospitals as centers for storing military equipment and planning attacks has been revealed as a serious human rights violation as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) close in on Al Shifa, a major hospital in the Gaza Strip. Israel has long said the...

www.algemeiner.com

 

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The 27 European Union nations have jointly condemned Hamas for what they described as the terror group’s use of hospitals and civilians as “human shields” in its war against Israel, as a Turkish ship carrying supplies to establish field hospitals arrived at an Egyptian port near the Gaza Strip.

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said Monday that at the same time, the bloc asked Israel “for maximum restraint and targeting in order to avoid human casualties.”

At a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers, Borrell brandished a statement he issued on behalf of the 27 nations as a show of unity following weeks of often contrasting statements on how the group should address the Israel-Hamas war.

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EU slams Hamas use of hospitals and civilians as human shields, as IDF nears Shifa

Turkish ship carrying supplies to build field hospitals arrives in Egyptian port el-Arish as Israeli military seeks to destroy Hamas command centers in hospitals

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The Hamas terrorist organization’s use of civilian hospitals as centers for storing military equipment and planning attacks has been revealed as a serious human rights violation as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) close in on Al Shifa, a major hospital in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has long said the hospital was home to the Palestinian terror group’s main base of operations, as well as cover for the coastal enclave’s complex tunnel system and a hideout for fuel, water, food, and other supplies that were being withheld from Gaza’s civilian population.

Hamas, which rules Gaza, has denied this charge — an increasingly untenable position after this weekend, when Israel’s army took control of the areas immediately surrounding the hospital, holding territory just a block away. At the same time, gunfire emerged from the sprawling hospital complex — where battle has been ensuing — exposing it as a center for Hamas fighters.

The European Union on Sunday lambasted Hamas for using hospitals as “human shields,” calling for civilians to be allowed to leave the area of fighting.

“The EU condemns the use of hospitals and civilians as human shields by Hamas,” the EU said in a statement. “Civilians must be allowed to leave the combat zone. These hostilities are severely impacting hospitals and taking a horrific toll on civilians and medical staff.”

The statement went on to demand the immediate release of the roughly 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas terrorists during their Oct. 7 massacre of southern Israeli communities. The hostages include children and elderly civilians.

Israel has presented an abundance of evidence in recent weeks detailing how Hamas has converted hospitals into operation centers and launchpads for missiles, while shielding the terror group behind the civilians using them.

Al Shifa is not the first hospital in Gaza to be the subject of controversy during the current war.

Last month, a misfired Palestinian rocket from Gaza caused a widely reported explosion near the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, according to intelligence from Israel and several Western governments. Experts agreed that Israel was not responsible, despite Hamas and several media outlets falsely blaming an Israeli air strike for causing the hospital blast.

It is expected that the IDF will take over Al Shifa in the coming days. The Israeli army has already helped to evacuate patients toward southern Gaza, including newborn infants. Much of the hospital staff has also evacuated south, with reports from Gaza saying that the hospital has lost all power and suspended operations after running out of fuel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel had offered fuel to Al Shifa, but that the terrorists had refused to receive it. Several press reports, citing Arab and Western officials, have corroborated Israeli claims that Hamas has been hoarding hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel for rockets and electricity used to power its network of underground tunnels as Gaza hospitals struggle to maintain power.

Meanwhile, Israel announced that 200 million NIS (about $52 million) would be directed to completing the fortification of hospitals around the country, where roughly half are now protected from rocket and missile fire.

Hamas-Controlled Hospitals in Gaza Outed as ‘Human Shields’ Amid Israeli Ground Operations - Algemeiner.com

The Hamas terrorist organization's use of civilian hospitals as centers for storing military equipment and planning attacks has been revealed as a serious human rights violation as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) close in on Al Shifa, a major hospital in the Gaza Strip. Israel has long said the...

www.algemeiner.com

When the bombing starts Palestinian families seek safety in schools, hospitals and other public buildings.

Do you think the Nuremberg laws came from emperor Constantine?