The reality behind the mass deaths on Oct. 17 at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital is that Netanyahu has committed Israel to the physical extermination of “Hamas”—but Hamas is not a regular army. The declared goal and the massive aerial bombardment makes clear that anyone that doesn’t obey the order to evacuate Gaza City and north Gaza is therefore effectively “Hamas.” Some of this “Hamas” population, according to Israel, hides in hospitals. Therefore hospitals are targets, and the World Health Organization stated that there had been 115 attacks on healthcare facilities in Gaza in the first 11 days, and the majority of its hospitals were not functioning.
Israeli authorities have been fully aware that they will create horrors that will shock the world. The Times of Israel wrote on Oct. 13: “A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces urged AIPAC and its followers to stick with Israel as it attacks Hamas even when ‘the going gets ugly’ and ‘the scenes out of Gaza will be hard to stomach.’ Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, the international spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, spoke Thursday evening [Oct. 12, five days before the bombing of the hospital] to a webcast convened by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee about what Israel expected from Americans and especially those who support the pro-Israel lobby. Conricus’s comments came shortly before Israel issued a warning to civilians in Gaza that they should leave the northern part of the Gaza Strip within 24 hours.”
Conricus is the same IDF spokesman who explained to the media yesterday that a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket that hit a parking lot did all the killing.
Israel’s developing narrative is that their aerial imagery fails to show a big crater that would have been produced if they had hit the hospital from the air; hence, a home-made Islamic Jihad (IJ) rocket hitting the parking lot did all the damage. How could it kill so many? Well, the death count must have been smaller.
