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…
“No duh”
- anyone with knowledge of Gaza before 10/7
Separately, a journalist from Italy who spoke to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity recounted that in 2009, right after Israel’s Operation Cast Lead against Hamas, he visited Gaza’s hospitals looking to interview wounded members of Fatah — the rival Palestinian faction that Hamas violently ousted from the coastal enclave in 2007.
“Eventually, I realized that they were all at home — Fatah members were too afraid to stay in the hospital, even if they were wounded,” the journalist said.
“Shifa is a very large compound. I got lost inside it, and at some point I ended up on an underground floor, and I found myself in front of two armed Hamas men in military attire, who told me to get out.”
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Which doesn’t mean that hospitals are terrorist hot spots, just that they are not safe in a deadly gang war. Mobsters also don’t feel safe from rivals in a hospital room.
Lol don’t tell that to the Lemmy Hamas sympathizers.
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.
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.
If they won’t provide evidence in a few weeks it will be a different story.
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.
It’s totally unfair, you know. Western audiences have been long conditioned to treat it as a sign of villainy when a dictatorial regime builds secret tunnels under innocuous civilian facilities to hide their terrorist warmongering and torture operations! Government propanganda sources like “James Bond” and “G.I. Joe” have conditioned Western audiences to believe that only the bad guys do that!
(Good guys build their secret underground facilities in places of astonishing natural beauty far from civilians who might be harmed by unexpected explosions.)
But what about all the James Bond supervillian bases in volcanoes etc?
Still waiting for Israel’s evidence.
Between surveillance camera footage, the guy shooting rocket launcher from the front door and this what would you consider as evidence instead?
The video of the guy holding a rocket launcher next to a different hospital? Israel lost me the moment they tampered with the evidence before news crews came. Wait no they lost me the moment they tried to convince us that that one calendar was a Hamas guard shift list.
“…they also had a Starbucks. It sucked,” the doctor added before grabbing his no-foam, no-whip, double soy latte with two pumps of vanilla and rushing out the door.
