This is Directed at the truly evil who USE GOD, to continue targetting innocent Americans in obedient service to their false idol.

Just like Boko Haram, Taliban, Hezbolloah or Hamas, religious zealots are everywhere and in no way are THEIR actions any reflection of the gospel! ON the contrary, they use your actions of any kind as an EXCUSE to dismiss their own! They're going to answer for that.

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USA CITIZENS, YOU MUST IMPLORE YOUR GOVERNMENT TO DO MORE, CALL UP YOUR REPS, WRITE EMAILS, SHOW UP IN THEIR PRESCENCE AND ASK THEM HOW THEY JUSTIFY STANDING BY WAR CRIMINALS LIKE APARTHEID ISRAEL

Why would the Biden administration oppose an investigation of the Baptist Hospital bombing in Gaza?

Eyeless in Gaza

I was waiting for the elevator in one of our local hospitals when my phone started to vibrate last Tuesday afternoon with the news—reported as simple fact by the Bing-Microsoft news service that funnels breaking events into my personal news feed—that Israel had intentionally blown up a hospital in Gaza and killed 500 hospital staff and patients, including children. Then the elevator came and I got into it. By the time I got out on the ninth floor, the original story had been “confirmed” by the New York Times. So how could it not be true?

Two hours later, the original message was gone—magically withdrawn into thin air—and unretrievable. The original Times banner “Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say” was also gone, replaced with the slightly (but only slightly) less inflammatory “At Least 500 Dead in Blast at Gaza Hospital, Palestinians Say.” But the damage was done. Not everybody who has an iPhone that features ongoing news alerts is as involved in news from Israel as I am. (Could anyone be? Maybe. But no one could be more emotionally and personally involved in the events of these last weeks.) And a fair number of them, I’m guessing, just quickly scanned the first headline, then filed it internally as yet one more terrible thing Israel has done to the innocents of Gaza. And so a scurrilous story—one that for me (and for anyone who knows as many IDF veterans as I do, and who has the respect for the IDF that it deserves) could not possibly be true—gains traction. By evening, the murder of these poor innocents was lighting up X, formerly Twitter, as though it were an established fact, as though it were a story featuring confirmed reality that only a willfully blind Zionist would even try to deny.

But, in fact, the story was not true. Or rather it was not true as reported. Yes, a terrible explosion killed hundreds at the al-Ahli hospital (also called the Baptist Hospital) in southern Gaza. And it is also true that all the victims appear to have been innocent civilians. But the IDF insists that it did not target that hospital and that, as far as they can tell, the damage was done by a missile intended by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad to murder Israeli civilians that misfired and landed in Gaza not far from where it was launched. And they also noted that the IDF is bound by rules of combat that specifically forbid its servicepeople from slaying civilians indiscriminately. And then, shortly after that, the P.M., Bibi Netanyahu himself, issued his own statement on Twitter saying plainly and unambiguously that this was not the work of the IDF.

Later, the President of the United States said clearly that American intelligence supported Israel’s claim of non-involvement. Plus, the hospital, it turned out, was not “blown up” at all, but is still standing. Aerial photographs showed rocket shrapnel on the roofs of adjacent buildings. And then, later that night, Israel released an apparently undoctored recording of Hamas operatives more or less confirming the Israeli version of events. (The recording is in Arabic, but click here to hear it with English subtitles.) Even the Gazans themselves eventually pulled back from their initial inflammatory reports, no longer mentioning 500 dead but merely referring to unidentified “hundreds.”  But by then the damage was more than done. The Arab street was on fire. There were huge demonstrations in many Muslim capitals, including Istanbul, Amman, Baghdad, and Beirut. President el-Sisi of Egypt, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and King Abdullah II of Jordan cancelled their plans to meet with President Biden, apparently thinking that insulting him for not embracing the initial (and almost fully incorrect) version of the story was a rational plan forward. On home turf, our own Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) asserted unambiguously (but apparently fully falsely) that the Israelis had “bombed the Baptist Hospital and killed 500 Palestinians.” And Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) shamelessly referenced the incident as an Israeli war crime without a shred of evidence to support her vitriol.

To wave this whole incident away as yet another success, albeit a temporary one, of the Palestinian misinformation campaign against Israel would be very wrong, however. The tragedy here is fully real. These poor people fled south in the first place to avoid being caught in the crossfire if Israel ultimately decides to enter Gaza to find and free the 199 hostages being held by Hamas. I suppose they must have imagined they were safe, or safer, in the southern part of Gaza and safer still in a hospital, a place of refuge and healing. If it turns out that this was “just” an accident, that the jihadists trying to murder innocent Israelis accidentally ended up murdering innocent Palestinians, then that will be terrible enough and grimly ironic. But if it turns out that this was intentional, that Hamas did this to prompt—almost to force—el-Sisi, Abdullah, and Mahmoud Abbas publicly to disrespect President Biden by refusing to meet with him in the course of his trip to the Middle East, then the raw cynicism of the move will be almost too much to bear.

I want to think that this was an accident. What normal person wouldn’t? But what if this was intentional, if this actually was undertaken fully intentionally as a piece of grotesque political theater intended to upend President Biden’s visit to the region? To refer to the concept of blowing up a hospital to further political aims as bestial behavior would be an insult to the animal kingdom. But some part of me wonders if that isn’t precisely what’s happened. And, indeed, President Biden’s trip to underscore our nation’s support for Israel and to meet with the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and the PA—that may simply have been too clear a harbinger of a future featuring an alliance of leaders implacably opposed to the kind of barbarism for which Hamas stands for the Hamas leadership not to do whatever it was going to take to prevent from happening. And the fact that the Palestinian president was going to be included—for which invitation the price was surely going to be his willingness to join in a blanket condemnation of Hamas’s brutal incursion into Israel and the unimaginable destruction directed almost solely against innocent civilians that incursion brought in its wake—that just may have been too much for Hamas to swallow. I have no evidence of any of the above. But I am too much a student of history to wave the darkness in my heart away as merely depressive or necessarily delusional. Terrible things happen in the world. And they often happen fully intentionally.

And that brings me to my real point. The challenge facing me personally in the wake of his incident is to find it in my heart to set everything I know about the Middle East—about Hamas and about the IDF and about Israel itself—to set it all aside and to mourn the dead of al-Ahli. I am by nature a bit cynical, but I specifically do not want to bring politics or cynicism to my appraisal of this tragedy, of this disaster. The children who died in the hospital was no more deserving of their fate than the Jewish babies and children murdered in cold blood by Hamas two weekends ago. So to wave them away as “mere” collateral damage in a larger story to which they were tiny footnotes—that would require a level of callousness and insensitivity of which I want—even need—to think of myself as being incapable of sustaining.

Since Simchat Torah, thousands have died on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border. To look past the death of innocents should be an impossibility for all who fear God and revere the sanctity of human life. Many more will die as Israel does what it can to eradicate Hamas and, in so doing, to avenge the death of its citizens. Still others will die as Hamas descends to ever darker degrees of demonic depravity in its anti-Israeli rage and does whatever it thinks necessary to hurt Israel and put space between it and its allies. In the end, Hamas will surely be annihilated. Of that, I harbor no doubts at all. But to take pleasure in that thought without mourning the innocents of al-Ahli should be impossible for even the most ardent supporter of Israel. As well it is with respect to me personally: I ardently look forward to the day when terror is defeated once and for all, but I mourn for those innocents who died when that rocket landed on the hospital in which they were seeking healing and refuge, and I feel their loss as a stone in my heart. To feel otherwise would be to deny their humanity—and that is something no decent person should even be able to do, let alone wish to do.

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7 April 2024

Firefighter and first responder Abdullah Al-Majdalawi documents the unthinkable conditions inside Al-Ahly Baptist Hospital.

Al-Ahly was bombed by the occupation early in the genocide, killing some 500 displaced people, patients, and medical staff. The surviving staff and volunteers were determined to keep it operational, and continued treating patients anyway. They were repeatedly besieged and invaded, staff and displaced people were kidnapped and tortured, they were forcibly evacuated, and the facility continued to be shelled, bombed, and attacked by snipers. Despite all of this, people always returned to resume operations.

Al-Ahly is now one of only two hospitals in north Gaza capable of any kind of medical treatment, albeit extremely limited in scope. After the siege and destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital, surviving patients were sent to Al-Ahly. Now, all of the new injuries that would have gone to Al-Shifa are going to Al-Ahly.

This has resulted in Al-Ahly being stretched far beyond its capacity, filled wall-to-wall with sick, injured, and dying patients. There are no beds, no stretchers, no free rooms, no aesthetics, few machines, and minimal supplies. People are being treated for life-threatening injuries on the floor because there is nowhere else to care for them. The situation is past catastrophic and beyond even the realm of nightmares. And yet staff and volunteers remain, treating and comforting patients and their families with no respite in over 6 months.

WARNING: Extremely graphic and disturbing footage! Viewer discretion strongly advised!

Richard Sewell, Dean of St. George’s College and Anglican Church leader in Jerusalem: To be honest, I'm hearing some of this new myself because it's a breaking story and although I do know it is definitely our hospital which has been hit, and we've had that confirmed by our own diocesan staff that the details that were being described then is new to me and to be honest, really distressing.

…It is funded by us, it's an Anglican Hospital. It does not receive any funding from the government of Gaza and all the staff are our staff. And we've been following things since the war on Gaza started and with the strike on Saturday, which was deeply distressing for us because of the vulnerability of so many people in the hospital. And this has just come, this news today comes as a devastating, tragic blow.

BBC Reporter: So I want to put something to you, because we know in the past the Israeli government has said that Hamas and other militants in the Gaza Strip do shield themselves and hide themselves behind civilian people, schools, hospitals. They have made that point before, the Israeli government. Of course, we don't know if they are responsible. We haven't managed to speak to them yet. To your understanding, was there anything like that connected to that hospital in any way?

Richard Sewell: Absolutely not! I mean, that is just an impossibility. We are an Anglican Christian institution. Hamas would not want to associate themselves closely with a Christian organization.

We exist as a charitable, independently funded organization and we certainly would not be harboring any Hamas government officials or operatives in any way, shape or form. It would be just impossible for us to do that. It’s not what we do.

The hospital has been a place where many people have sheltered because it was thought that a hospital would be a safe place to shelter for those who did not want to make the long trek south of Wadi Gaza.

And so my understanding is that on Saturday, before the missile hit the building, that there were 6,000 people sheltering in the grounds of the hospital, many of them just in the open air, but in the compound, which is sort of a green area around the hospital in our property.

And then about 1,000 others who would be patients, 600 patients, it's a 600 bed hospital. And then doctors and nurses and other hospital staff.

When the missile hit on Saturday, damaging the building severely and causing four injuries, 5000 of those people left realizing that it was not safe, leaving a thousand of the most vulnerable, and the patients and the staff there.

…We need answers. We need to know why on earth our people are being targeted, who are civilians, and vulnerable. Civilians shouldn’t be involved in any sort of military activity.

It’s a tragedy. (source)

The Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza was carried out with a “proximity fuse” bomb that explodes high above the ground, an expert told Anadolu on Wednesday. 

Retired military officer and ammunition specialist Engin Yigit said there was a strong possibility that the attack was carried out with an MK-84 guided bomb.

Yigit said considering the images of the moment of the attack, the probability that the ammunition was a JDAM-equipped 2,000-pound (910-kilogram) Mark 84 (MK-84) bomb increased.

He noted that Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is the name of one of the guidance kits. “You can make the bomb guided with a kit that you attach to the front or back of MAK-82, MAK-83, MAK-84 bombs.”

“JDAM is a type of kit that allows precise delivery of the bomb to the target,” he said. “The said kit attached to the bomb makes the bomb smart and provides precision strike capability.”

Yigit said there are several fuses to detonate the bombs and some can explode on impact, while others can explode at the desired moment and height before impact.

“Bombs with proximity fuses or proximity sensors may not create craters where they explode,” he said. “The hospital attack in Gaza may have been similar. How high the bomb explodes can be set by the user.”

The strike by Israel on the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital killed at least 471 victims, according to revised figures by the Gaza Health Ministry.

The conflict began Oct. 7 when Hamas initiated Operation Al-Aqsa Flood -- a multi-pronged surprise attack that included a barrage of rocket launches and infiltrations into Israel by land, sea and air.

Hamas said the incursion was in retaliation for the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and growing violence by Israeli settlers.

The Israeli military then launched Operation Swords of Iron against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.

At least 3,478 Palestinians have been killed. The death toll in Israel stands at more than 1,400.

“This might be the strongest 2 minutes of analysis and condemnation of Israel's bombing—a war crime—of the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza you'll see today.”

17-18/10/2023

Today, you may find many tweets of condolences coming all of a sudden from silent or complicit people after the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital. Your words are too little and too late. I can see blood on your hands since the first day of Israeli aggression.

For the 11 days, you’ve consistently justified “Israel’s right to defend itself” while they are committing crimes day and night. You said nothing about historical, political or humanitarian fairness to the besieged Palestinians of Gaza and the occupied Palestine. Every country supported Israel's "self-defence", and every politician, anchor, news agency, and activist shares the responsibility for the blood of Palestinians. They are complicit in the genocide.

14-10-2023: The world is still silent. OK…“Silence is complicity,”🤫 However, I couldn't accept this silence from certain groups. Why are the oppressed and survivors of previous #genocide silent??? #gaza #Gazagenocide #Srebrenica #Syria #Auschwitz

10/10/2023: I realized that famous activists of Balkan (recent genocide survivors) speak only about their issues (1990s) and the Holocaust (1940s). They don't speak or mention anything about the CURRENT Genocide in Gaza! It seems they are so selective to speak about the past, not the recent current crimes.

Statement from the Islamic Jihad denouncing the accusation of responsibility for the bombing of Al-Ahli Arab/Baptist Arab Hospital.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 RICHARD MEDHURST ON THE LIES FROM THE ISRAELI AND US GOVERNMENTS, MAKING EXCUSES FOR THE MURDER OF MORE THAN 500 CIVLIANS IN THE AL-AHLI BAPTIST HOSPITAL

24 March 2024

Nurse Mohammed Saeed and several patients have evacuated Al-Shifa Hospital to Al-Ma’adani/Al-Ahly Baptist Hospital in north Gaza. He and his colleagues continue to treat patients from Al-Shifa and from Al-Ahly.

His contacts remaining at Al-Shifa report more and more patients die every day from the IOF’s prohibition on medical care. Medical staff are starved and dehydrated, and are now developing serious infections due to these and other conditions created by the siege.