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Israel At War – Day 309

When Will They Learn?

Not Like It Appears

We learn from an article from The Times Of Israel that the IDF struck a public school area taking out 19 terrorists:

The IDF and Shin Bet security agency on Saturday night named 19 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror operatives that it said it killed in an airstrike Saturday morning on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command room at the Taba’een school in Gaza City.

As expected Hamas claims it was a massacre that killed 90 people and the usual nations were aghast at Israel for blatantly striking a place of worship and killing so many citizens:

The Gaza Strip’s Hamas-run civil defense agency claimed over 90 people were killed in the airstrike, describing the incident as a “horrific massacre.” Several Western diplomats, the Egyptian and Qatari mediators of ceasefire-for-hostage talks and numerous Muslim countries denounced Israel over the airstrike.

The US was also concerned initially:

The White House said it was “deeply concerned” about the airstrike and was seeking further details. It said far too many civilians continue to be killed in the Gaza war.

“We know Hamas has been using schools as locations to gather and operate out of, but we have also said repeatedly and consistently that Israel must take measures to minimize civilian harm,” said a statement issued by National Security Council spokesperson Sean Savett.

For its part, Israel defended the strike that took out 19 known terrorists:

According to the IDF, the strike was carried out using three “precision munitions” against the two terror groups’ command room embedded within a mosque at the Taba’een school complex.

They went on to note that the information they have isn’t matching what Hamas is telling people:

The military said that footage from after the strike showed that there was no major damage to the surrounding school complex. It also said that the missiles “could not have caused the damage that corresponds to the casualty reports of the government media office in Gaza.”

Hamas didn’t confirm who were Hamas terrorists and who were innocent citizens:

It was unclear how many people were killed in all, and how many of the casualties were combatants.

More Upset People

Social media being what it is, just about anyone can throw out an allegation without really supporting it, especially when little information is known:

“Horrified by images from a sheltering school in Gaza hit by an Israeli strike, with reportedly dozens of Palestinian victims. At least 10 schools were targeted in the last weeks. There’s no justification for these massacres,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wrote on X.

While airstrikes have been hitting places where civilians usually are, the IDF says they are actually very careful where they hit:

In recent months, dozens of airstrikes have been carried out against Hamas sites embedded within schools and other sites used as shelters for civilians, according to the IDF.

The IDF said two days ago that it had struck Hamas command and control centers in schools in the Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods. And on Monday, it said the commander of Hamas’s Sheikh Radwan Battalion was killed in an airstrike at another school in Gaza City.

The logic is simple:

According to military assessments, Hamas operatives are struggling to remain inside tunnels as the long war drags on and are therefore increasingly moving to above-ground sites, while hiding among innocents.

Still, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, the politics of blame still keeps on happening:

Egypt claimed Israel’s “deliberate killing” Saturday of Palestinians showed that it lacks a political will to end the war in Gaza amid negotiations for a deal that would see hostages released by Hamas in return for a ceasefire.

Qatar, which like Egypt has been mediating in the talks between Israel and Hamas, demanded an urgent probe after the strike.

The Qatari foreign ministry said it renewed the Gulf emirate’s “demand for an urgent international investigation, including the dispatch of independent UN investigators, to ascertain the facts regarding the Israeli occupation forces’ continued targeting of schools and shelters for displaced persons.”

Lebanon which hosts Hezbollah leveled criticism as well:

The foreign ministry of Lebanon — from where Hezbollah has been launching near-daily attacks on Israel in solidarity with Gaza since the Hamas-led October 7 atrocities that started the ongoing fighting — said the strike showed Israel’s intention to “extend the war,” while Saudi Arabia urged the end to the “mass slaughter in Gaza.”

But Wait, There’s More

In between preparing to strike Israel, Iran had time to criticize Israel as well:

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson claimed the strike was proof of “genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity simultaneously” and called for broad action by Muslim countries against Israel, and support for Palestinian “resistance.”

Another prominent country also piled on:

Turkey, another supporter of Hamas like Iran, denounced a “new crime against humanity” after Israel’s attack, according to a foreign ministry statement.

“Israel has committed a new crime against humanity by massacring more than 100 civilians who had taken refuge in a school,” the ministry said, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of wanting “to sabotage ceasefire negotiations.”

Add the United Nations to the list of critics, although this particular critic has a known hatred for the Jews:

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights situation in Palestinian territories, accused Israel of committing “genocide” in its war against Hamas after the strike.

“Israel is genociding [sic] the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one safe zone at the time,” she said on social media platform X.

She was revealed for such hatred not long ago:

The Times of Israel exposed Albanese’s history of antisemitism, including comments on how the “Jewish lobby” was in control of the US, in an investigation in 2022.

Of course she continues to get away with doing it:

Albanese, who is tasked with investigating Israeli activities in the Palestinian territories, has not faced any repercussions from the UN or issued a clear apology for her past statements. She has continued to lob accusations of war crimes against Israel in recent months.

I’m not sure when or if the rest of the world will admit that Hamas hides in schools, hospitals, places of worship and even the homes of citizens and even hide their weapons in nurseries, but they do. After all the evidence proving this is shown to these leaders of other countries the same tropes about concern when the IDF targets and takes out precise places where terrorist are hiding keep showing up like clockwork. Hamas can blatantly target their own people and the memories of the October 7th massacre somehow are a distant memory to these political leaders as they try to play both sides of the fight to keep everyone happy. Mainly they try to placate the terrorists sympathizers because they fear what they will do in their own countries while they know that Jews will peacefully co-exist and cause no trouble. Seriously folks, open your eyes to what is really happening. These terrorists don’t play by the same rules and don’t value life the same way Western countries do. The sooner all these arm chair critics figure that out will be the time when they quit accusing Israel of the very things Hamas does and instead help the IDF to eliminate these fake “humanitarians.” Unfortunately I don’t think that will happen this side of the Millennium, but a guy can hope.