Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they are “Hamas command centers.”

[planosteve]

Israel is systematically and deliberately destroying Gaza’s medical infrastructure as part of a scorched earth campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable and escalate a humanitarian crisis. It intends to force 2.3 million Palestinians over the border into Egypt where they will never return.

Israel has destroyed and nearly emptied the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia is next. Israel is deploying tanks and armored personnel carriers around the hospital and has fired rounds into the building, killing twelve people.

The playbook is familiar. Flyers are dropped by Israel over a hospital telling people to leave because the hospital is a base for “Hamas terrorist activities.” Tanks and artillery shells rip away parts of the hospital walls. Ambulances are blown up by Israeli missiles. Power and water is cut. Medical supplies are blocked. There are no painkillers, antibiotics and oxygen. The most vulnerable, premature babies in incubators and the gravely ill, die. Israeli soldiers raid the hospital and force everyone out at gunpoint.

This is what happened at Al Shifa hospital. This is what happened at Al Rantisi Children’s Hospital. This is what happened at Gaza’s main psychiatric hospital. This is what happened at Nasser Hospital. This is what happened at the other hospitals that Israel has destroyed. And this is what will happen at the few hospitals that remain.

Israel has shut down 21 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals, including Gaza’s only cancer hospital. The hospitals still operating have severe shortages of basic medicine and supplies. One by one the hospitals are being picked off. Soon there will be no health facilities left. This is by design.

Tens of thousands of terrified Palestinians, forced to evacuate by Israel, their homes blasted into rubble, seek refuge from the relentless bombing by camping out in and around Gaza’s hospitals. They hope the medical centers will not be targeted by Israel. If Israel abided by the Geneva Conventions they would be correct. But Israel is not carrying out a war. It is carrying out a genocide. And in a genocide, a population, and all that sustains a population, is obliterated.

In an ominous sign that Israel will turn on the Palestinians in the West Bank once it is done flattening Gaza, armored vehicles have surrounded at least four West Bank hospitals. The Ibn Sina Hospital has been raided by Israeli soldiers along with the East Jerusalem Hospital.

Israel’s settler colonial state was founded on lies. It is sustained by lies. And now, when it is grimly determined to carry out the worst slaughter and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba, or “catastrophe,” that saw 750,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed and some 50 massacres by Jewish militias, it spits out one grotesque absurdity after another. It speaks of Palestinians as a dehumanized mass. There are no mothers, fathers, children, teachers, doctors, lawyers, cooks, poets, taxi drivers or shopkeepers. Palestinians, in the Israeli lexicon, are a single contagion that must be eradicated.

Those who embark upon projects of mass killing lie to avoid demoralizing their own populations, lull the victims into believing they will not all be exterminated and stop outside forces from intervening. The Nazis claimed that Jews packed on trains and sent to extermination camps were on work details and had good medical care and adequate food. As for the infirm and elderly, they were cared for in rest centers. The Nazis even created a mock camp for the “resettlement” of Jews “to the East,” – Theresienstadt – where international bodies such as the Red Cross could see how humanely the Jews were treated, even as millions were being exterminated.

At least 664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million Armenians were massacred or died of exposure, disease and starvation during the genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire from the spring of 1915 to the autumn of 1916. The Armenian genocide was as public as the genocide in Gaza. European and U.S. consular missions provided detailed accounts of the campaign to cleanse modern day Türkiye of Armenians.

The Ottoman government, in an attempt to hide the genocide, banned foreigners from taking photographs of Armenian refugees or the corpses that lined the roads. Israel too has blocked the foreign press from Gaza, carrying out only a handful of brief and carefully staged visits arranged by the Israeli military. Israel periodically cuts off internet and phone services. At least 43 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed by Israel since the Hamas incursion into Israel on Oct. 7, many undoubtedly targeted by Israeli forces.

https://www.unz.com/article/israels-war-on-hospitals/

[jellowrestling]

Unvarnished horse cr*p.

[planosteve]

Unvarnished horse cr*p.

Well, he was wrong about the "Nazi Extermination Camps"

[Sangersteve]

CNN visited the exposed tunnel shaft in the Al-Shifa hospital compound.

CNN saw it and still had to try and spin it.

The media is using hamas lies to make up stories.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/middleea ... index.html

[GFB]

“Israel is systematically and deliberately destroying Gaza’s medical infrastructure as part of a scorched earth campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable and escalate a humanitarian crisis. It intends to force 2.3 million Palestinians over the border into Egypt where they will never return.”

Damn they’re smart aren’t they?

[Mark]

It's always been hard to believe, but I've read stories about Nazi sympathizers during WWII. Now I'm getting to see the exact same thing right before my eyes.

[planosteve]

It's always been hard to believe, but I've read stories about Nazi sympathizers during WWII. Now I'm getting to see the exact same thing right before my eyes.

By the way, there was no "holocaust"!

[Mark]

It's always been hard to believe, but I've read stories about Nazi sympathizers during WWII. Now I'm getting to see the exact same thing right before my eyes.

By the way, there was no "holocaust"!

Exhibit A

[planosteve]

It's always been hard to believe, but I've read stories about Nazi sympathizers during WWII. Now I'm getting to see the exact same thing right before my eyes.

By the way, there was no "holocaust"!

Exhibit A

Exhibit B- When something is true, you don't have to pass laws mandating that you believe it. Yet, in most countries in Europe it is illegal to deny the Holocaust!

[Sangersteve]

These days, it can be hard to tell if the hospital you're at is also a staging ground for Islamist terrorists to commit mass murder! We at the Babylon Bee have assembled a list of ten subtle clues to help you discern if the hospital you're at is actually a Hamas base:

The doctors break out in cheers when someone dies: Not a good start.
The ambulance has a .50-cal machine gun mounted on top: It does clear traffic, but in a very Hamas-y manner.
The hospital offers to waive your bill if you strap on this cool vest: To be fair, we're told they do keep their word.
The gift shop sells "I'm sorry you've been taken hostage" balloons: Uh-oh.
The sound of small arms fire keeps coming from the Cancer Ward: Very unorthodox, those Hamas cancer treatments.
You got lost on the way to the cafeteria and ended up in an underground tunnel filled with rocket launchers: Not good!
The pediatric unit is labeled the "Human Shield Ward": Strong terrorist vibes.
The intake nurse checks your temperature, pulse, and circumcision status: Yikes.
The surgical assistant is a goat: And oh no, he's wearing Hamas' little green headband!
None of the doctors are Jewish: Pretty much a dead giveaway.
Spotting Hamas bases inside hospitals can be tough, but keep your eyes peeled for these hints!

[jellowrestling]

By the way, there was no "holocaust"!

Exhibit A

Exhibit B- When something is true, you don't have to pass laws mandating that you believe it. Yet, in most countries in Europe it is illegal to deny the Holocaust!

We're back to Exhibit A