Israel ends military operation in al Shifa hospital
The 2-week long battle of al Shifa hospital is ended – for now. It really has been a successful operation:
During the IDF’s operation against terrorist operatives hiding in Gaza’s Shifa Medical Hospital:
?? 6,000 civilians were safely evacuated
?? 200 terrorists were killed
?? 500 terrorists were arrestedAnd most importantly ?? ZERO civilians were killed.
Hamas chose the…
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 1, 2024
I think it bears repeating: zero civilians killed. That is simply extraordinary. But of course, the MSM would much rather highlight the extremely unfortunate Israeli airstrike that unintentionally killed seven foreign aid workers. The fact that such errors and/or collateral damage are absolutely inevitable in urban warfare doesn’t matter; Israel is not allowed any errors.
More about the al Shira findings [emphasis mine]:
Following the IDF withdrawal, scenes of widespread devastation were revealed at the hospital, where many of the gunmen trapped had refused to surrender and engaged in fierce battles with Israeli troops. (…)
The army on Sunday released footage it said showed a cache of weapons seized by the Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit in Shifa Hospital’s maternity ward.
“No hospital in the world looks like this. This is what a house of terrorists looks like,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a Sunday news conference.
The weapons, including mortars, explosive devices, sniper rifles, assault rifles, handguns, and other military equipment, were found hidden inside patient pillows and beds, and in the drop ceilings and walls of the building, according to the IDF.
Hamas hopes that civilians will be killed. It wants civilians to be killed, the better to stir up hatred of Israel and Jews, and the better to spread the blood libel and charges of genocide and war crimes. The enemy – Israel – is engaged in trying not to oblige Hamas and tries to spare civilians, at great cost to its own forces.
It is an astounding and Orwellian reversal of the usual aims of war, and that isn’t just because this is urban warfare. It is because for Hamas it is a propaganda war, and propaganda is their field of expertise. The propaganda war is the only one they feel they have to win. In terms of actual Palestinian deaths, Hamas figures the more the better.
If we had proper journalism, the propaganda would fail.
I’m sure if Hamas came out with the claim that IDF soldiers took blowtorches to a hundred babies clinging to life in a neonatal ICU in the hospital it would run as front page news in every newspaper in the US tomorrow.
(OT – Huh. Am terrible at English and worse at punctuation. So “is” is correct here instead of “has” – good to learn something new everyday.)
Yeah, that “for now” part is a problem. These idiots have been taught to hate Israel since birth, and they will keep coming back until killed or captured.
Have noticed that Israel seems to easily gain info from a lot of these prisoners – so capture is a serious weakness for them.
@sythan:
People believe what they want to believe, and curate the available evidence to fit their beliefs. No evidence? No problem.
Each dead Palestinian civilian is a form of currency, the value assigned by the outside world. Clearly, the more units (dead Palestinian civilians), the larger account Hamas has of moral authority, legitimacy, and Israel hate.
This depends on the unit value assigned by the rest of the world.
If the dead Palestinians had the unit value assigned by the rest of the world to dead Israeli civilians, Hamas would be flat broke.
As ever, and I know I’m repeating myself, but as far as Hamas goes? They just need killing.
I find myself excessively annoyed at how many news outlets talk about the Israeli “raid” on al Shifa, as if that’s the correct term for spending two weeks fighting in the same location.
From the river
to the sea
Hamashites
are dead to me
Play stupid games
push up daiseys
Any numbers of IDF casualties?
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