A British doctor who used to work at Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical center, under which the IDF says Hamas operates a major command and control base, has confirmed that there were areas of the hospital where he could not go, or else he would be shot.
In a recent interview with the English-language channel of French broadcaster France24…
This would be more believable if the IDF, which has been searching the complex for days, had found anything of the sort. A major command and control base, supposedly accessible from places random employees can stumble upon, isn’t something you need days of intensive searching to reveal.
Like this?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/19/idf-israel-army-footage-claims-hamas-tunnel-al-shifa-hospital-gaza
They blasted a hole through a garage floor to find a tunnel, that’s not a terror command center and not something a member of the hospital would stumble upon. If this was a big important storage and command site that random doctors would wander into, the troops there would have found it already by just opening doors.
These situations can still be reconciled. Perhaps this particular doctor had a habit of blasting holes in floors and had to be told not to do that under threat of being shot.
Most probable scenario.
Medic by trade, demo man by hobby.
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The attack was planned for over a year. Covering a door with a wall 3 weeks in advance is easy.
I doubt Israel has trouble sensing voids through a wall, or even just mapping out missing space the old fashioned way.
And their very failure to defend against this attack is exactly why you should be suspicious of their claims to intelligence justifying attacking hospitals. Their intelligence services very clearly aren’t as good as they’ve been claiming.
I assume this is what they are doing, but we don’t know. It is an active war zone. The new walls or the passages behind them may be trapped.
If they won’t provide evidence in a few weeks it will be a different story. In the meanwhile they did provide evidence for the existence of tunnels under Shifa. They also released another video from inside the tunnel that the guardian don’t show.
Parts of their intelligence collecting bodies did warn of the attack. The warnings were ignored, there isn’t a clear picture why, not a public one.
The war is a month old and 10,000 people are dead. They’ve already moved on to another hospital. In a few weeks there won’t be any hospitals left in Gaza and they’ll be telling us the real command center is under their next target. They’ve done nothing to earn this trust and done multiple things that invite heavy skepticism.
It doesn’t matter how old the war is, it matters how much time IDF had in Shifa hospital.
Where they already shown underground tunnels. They already shown the area to have military usage (making it into a valid target).
Now they need to show access from the hospital to the tunnels.
BTW, this is nothing new, Hamas has been using Shifa since atleast 2014. I think no one will claim Amnesty is biased towards Israel.
You’re asking for “a few weeks” before anyone decides whether invading hospitals is a good idea. It very much matters how much damage will be done in that time period. 5 days is a lot of time. They have control, technology, manpower, and a pressing need to justify this attack.
And they don’t seem to be in any hurry, because they know that, like a police shooting, if they can just delay long enough (say “a few weeks”), attention will move on to a whole new horror. They just need to keep the outrage at manageable levels to squeeze a few more weeks of destruction out of the conflict so they can then advocate that all these pesky people should just move elsewhere for “humanitarian reasons”. No one should be starting from a place of trust about all this destruction when members of the far right government are actively supporting ethnic cleansing.
And fuck your antiseptic deflection about valid targets. It’s not justified to kill five times as many civilians as enemy fighters. It’s not justified to tell people to evacuate south and then bomb where they evacuate to. And it’s not justified to invade a hospital for what appears to be a handful of weapons. This is callous apologia for crimes against humanity.
Israel provide evidence.