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Israel has justified bombing a Gaza hospital, killing civilians, because an injured Hamas politician was there. The laws of war only ever seem to be forgotten when it is Israel violating them
Israel and its genocide cheerleaders are claiming Israel’s air strike on the Nasser Hospital in Gaza last night – which killed several patients and staff – was justified because a Hamas politician was being treated there for injuries from an earlier Israeli strike.
Israel has also seized on the fact that a Hamas official was in the hospital to retroactively rationalise its destruction of Gaza’s entire health sector, leaving more than 2 million Palestinians with barely functioning medical care in the midst of Israel’s genocidal bombing campaign.
At the weekend, the Israeli army blew up the entire Turkish Hospital in Gaza and did so without any possible military justification. Its soldiers had been occupying the hospital, using it as a military post, for much of the past year.
The hospital had served its purpose for Israel – and Israel sees no purpose for Palestinian hospitals actually serving the Palestinian population. After all, Israel’s goal is to drive Palestinians out of Gaza, and that is made easier if Palestinians have no surviving medical facilities in the enclave.
Once again, Israel’s “justification” for the latest attack on Nasser Hospital doesn’t even bother to suggest it accords with any known principle of international law.
Here are a few reminders about the long-established laws of war that only ever seem to be forgotten when it is Israel violating them.
Even fighters are considered non-combatants – that is, not legitimate targets for military attack – when they are injured and no longer engaged in combat. That rule applies even more obviously to politicians.
All Israel’s hospitals, such as Rambam in Haifa, regularly treat Israeli soldiers injured in combat. Israeli hospitals are doing so right now – Israel makes no secret of this.
No one, least of all the people defending last night’s attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza, would for one moment consider it legitimate for Hamas to bomb Rambam Hospital, killing patients and staff there, to hit an injured soldier being treated at the facility.
But what Israel did is even more clearly a violation of the laws of war because it bombed the hospital to hit an injured Hamas politician, not a fighter.
That is the equivalent of Hamas striking a hospital in Israel, killing Israeli staff and patients, to assassinate an Israeli politician.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently spent several days in the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem for a prostate operation.
Had Hamas hit the hospital, can one imagine Israel and its supporters – or western politicians and media – accepting that as legitimate grounds for a military attack? The question doesn’t even need asking.
The only reason it is okay for Israel to attack a Palestinian hospital, killing Palestinian civilians, to assassinate a Palestinian politician is because the western political and media class are out-and-out anti-Palestinian racists.
Palestinian life is meaningless to them. Israel calls Palestinians ‘human animals’ – and western leaders secretly concur.
Once Jews were seen that way – as human animals. Their lives were worthless. They were killed on an industrial scale across Europe.
Today’s Europe is no different, nor is the US. It’s just that Jews are no longer the objects of the West’s institutional racism and its structural violence. Palestinians are.
The West’s racism that led to the Holocaust is still with us. We have not learnt from history. Our politics has not evolved beyond that of our great-grandparents’ generation. The Gaza genocide is our generation’s Holocaust. And we are equally complicit.
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Wasn’t this question
asked duringanswered by the MIEE.2024 presidential “debates”?The Israelis have called the tune. They can dance to it.
No, but it’s okay to attack a Palestinian hospital because Hamas is not the problem. “The people are,” per distinguished Israeli security guy and colonel Gabi Saboni, citing “Trump’s vision.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250324-israeli-col-hamas-is-not-the-issue-gazas-people-are/
He’s right, of course. Israel has nothing to fear from Hamas. It has everything to fear from Arab Nation. The enemy is demographics. Jews are leaving Israel, Jews are not moving in, and the Jews making children are Haredim, who hate the Zionist state. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-808425
Genocide is the only solution. It always has been.
The question is, of course, a strawman. Here is a better one. If Islam is really interested in the welfare of Gaza’s civilians:
Why not set-up a hospital in Iran or Qatar?
Those needing medical care and assistance could leave Gaza and receive services hundreds of miles away from the front lines. Creating a facility that cannot be weaponized by Hamas would keep it out of the fighting.
Over half of of the civilians trapped on the front lines *voluntarily* want to leave, at least temporarily: (1)
It would be much easier to support civilians where no fighting is going on. What is missing? Muslim countries willing to provide shelter for their coreligionists. Instead of a Pillar of Charity, there is no room at the inn.
PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/23/gallup-poll-majority-of-gazans-would-relocate-if-allowed/
Great article… other than the fact that there was no “holocaust” of the Jews in t WW II, any more than was a “holocaust” of any gentile group in WW II. The vast majority of deaths in the camps was due to typhus carried by lice, which was the reason for the delousing (thus, zyclon b, a delousing agent). Jewish hasbara is not fact, and the Red Cross statistics of Jewish deaths in the camps was 271,000, NOT 6 million. But again, a great article pointing out simple truths about the double standards of the Jenociders.
i’ve got an even better idea, why don’t you extend your “christian charity” to your israeli brothers and sisters, let them all stay at your house and camp out in your yard. if there isn’t enough room in your inn, they can takeover your whole neighborhood. if your neighbors don’t like it, you can always expel them at gun point or just blow up their homes, if they refuse to leave. you know, tikkun olam.
peace (is war, to an israeli)
Oh, it would be good news for a change.
Hamas has been warned time and again not to hide in the hospitals, but they ignore the warnings and Israel is forced to destroy the building to root out these rats.
Put the blame where it belongs – on Hamas for not heeding past warnings and for not laying down their weapons and surrendering.
Wimpy Biden and Obama are not in office. Trump is and he is not going to worry about Palestinian deaths caused by the Hamas terrorists.
I still say, forget the hostages. Flood the tunnels and force Hamas above ground.
Indigenous Palestinian Jews who want to *voluntarily* leave their homes have little difficulty doing so. 90 day visas to enter America are almost always automatically granted with minimal processing fees & checks. Obtaining extensions is not particularly difficult.
I would be happy to see the Christian U.S. accept Gazan Christians if needed. Though they would likely want to travel to closer refugee locations within Christendom.
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Why are you so determined to keep your Muslim civilian coreligionists trapped on the battlefield in Gaza?
They want to *voluntarily* leave. What gives your Islam the moral authority to confine them?
Is it not obvious that Muslim civilians would do better in a safe Islamic country, such as Qatar, hundreds of miles away from the fighting?
PEACE 😇
Israel just does what it learned from the great Allies.
The only reason it is okay for Israel to attack a Palestinian hospital . . . is because the western political and media class are out-and-out anti-Palestinian racists.
Not to quibble with the expert, but I’d say the reason isn’t as much their anti-Palestinian racism as these politicians and talking heads being before all else the worst sort of disgusting moral cowards, which is precisely why they mysteriously appear on the ballot or get hired by, say, Fox News in the first place.
At one point Fox News used to laughably present itself as the voice of family values—gay, as it turns out—not forgetting the rhinestone-cowboy, jingoistic patriotism, and all for the purpose of encapsulating the toxic Israel-first meme flogged by those whores for their Jewish paymasters.
These media people, who’re complicit in the murder of so many tens of thousands, easily segue from lying for Israel for a living to five-star restaurants for lunch in Midtown Manhattan and parties in the Hampton over the weekend without batting an eye—what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil. Sean Hannity, for example, gets paid something like $40 million a year to recruit fools to fight and die for Israel, while proving his moral degeneracy by dumping his wife for some bleach blonde bimbo half his age.
You’re right again, Trump doesn’t care about any Palestinian deaths. He loves to say he’s a Nationalist, but he never names the country, now we know. He is and always was one of you.
“Once Jews were seen that way – as human animals. Their lives were worthless. They were killed on an industrial scale across Europe.”
This is bull… And this has been debunked several times.
This is alos the excuse the Jews use to perpetrate all their crimes because of the ‘holocaust’, so-called ‘pogroms’, etc…
Russian proverb: “the jew always tell you what happened to him, he never tell you why”.
No other damn race has been expelled more than a thousand times and from all the countries they ever settled in history. Not any except them.
Any other race would be doing what they are doing in Palestine, the world would have fallen on them, but with the jew, the world is silent at beest, when it’s not helping them.
“When the Banality of Evil Becomes Normalized, it Grows Unchecked.”
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/when-the-banality-of-evil-becomes-normalized-it-grows-unchecked/
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/the-last-chapter-of-the-genocide
Fuck your lies.
The fact is, Hamas has never attacked any hospital, but this is the group that is called ‘terrorist’ by the biggest terrorist sponsors of all times (the US and Israel).
However, for Netanyahu billions would agree to make an exception if the outcome was his elimination.
No need to target an hospital though, he has a home and it’s been hit twice by Hezbollah without success, their rockets fell short and he wasn’t at home, but and given the number of his enemies growing inside and outside, this could really become the solution of a lot of problems for a lot fo people.
Even his own kind might want to get rid of him:
Tensions Rise as Israeli Officials Trade Accusations over Shin Bet’s Bar
“Tensions are high in the Zionist entity as Israeli officials trade accusations over Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, whom Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pressing ahead with proceedings to sack him.
Israel’s Supreme Court temporarily halted the dismissal of the Israeli domestic intelligence service chief, shortly after the Cabinet approved the move. What prompted PM Netanyahu’s government to remove Shin Bet head Ronen Bar? pic.twitter.com/hMxl1SfoWv
For his part, National Unity chairman Benny Gantz blamed Netanyahu for bringing Kahanists into the government after.
“Netanyahu chose to bring Ben Gvir into the Knesset, he chose to form a government with him, he chose to return him to the government,” Gantz tweeted.”
Very few people would regret this scumbag.
Hamas just released a video of two Israeli hostages pleading for a ceasefire.
What’s interesting is that, in reading their body language, there is no hint they’re being coerced or manipulated in their statements. Both are completely straightforward.
What a damning indictment of Israel.
Video Link
you mean like how palestinians *voluntarily* left their homes in 1948, at the point of a gun? they didn’t let them come back, i hope your israeli larpers get to leave *voluntarily* in another mass exodus, ending up on your doorstep.
shalom👹
Compared to what the Limeys, with Yankee help, did in Dresden in 1945, I’d have to say the Jews have actually shown restraint. I haven’t seen Palestinians getting burned up wholesale in one night from phosphorous bombs dropped on Gaza on an industrial scale. I figure it’s one reason why the Anglo-Americans always go so easy on Israel, while so many other countries are outraged – they don’t have a choice! If they were more critical of Israel, the Jews could always turn around and say ‘look what you bastards did!’ ‘Do we need to list all the places and the huge loss of life from allied bombing? ‘ The Jews would have a point. The Anglo-Americans have got so much blood on their hands, they’re not in a position to ‘restrain’ anyone.
Peace through ethnic cleansing, genocide and a new Holocaust. Brilliant. Goebells would be proud. You are a moral monster, profoundly ignorant. This isn’t about Islam. Palestinians are Muslim, Christian and, yes, even Jewish (if they haven’t already been burned to death by IOF bombing). They are not interchangeable just because they’re brown skinned and share a religion. Your comment supports Mr. Cook’s conclusion. Racism is at the heart of the conflict.
The correct answer to the question posed in the title of this article will soon be illegal to say in public or post on social media in the US. One can nevertheless in the privacy of their own imagination picture the satisfaction of witnessing the lawn mowing back.
Just do like the Zionists do. Bomb hospitals and nurseries and then claim it was justified because they thought there were terrorists hiding inside.
When it comes to the massacre of civilians, nobody does it better than those fabulous allies – specifically the Anglo-Americans. 50,000 Palestinians? A substantial number, but the Limeys had already managed that in one attack by the time Hamburg was bombed. And do you think they gave a rat’s ass about hospitals, or women and children? No, the Jews can point to a lot of skeletons in the Anglo-American closet – which is why the Anglo-Americans can’t say much about how Israel conducts its military operations.
It would be okay for “Hamas” (the jew-created organization) to release gaseous chemicals across Israel to exterminate all jews. If you’re going to ask a meaningless hypothetical that will never come to pass, why not go for something people care about and which would actually cause change?
Fight fire with fire as the old saying goes.
The nasty part of me says yes, but in reality it wouldn’t be OK to bomb a hospital just because Nutty-Yahoo is a patient. How many others would be killed?
Uh…the grown-ups in the room were talking about Israel specifically targeting hospitals.
You then awkwardly execute a pirouette in launching a diatribe against the “Anglo-Americans” for the bombing of Hamburg. (No: I don’t support the terror-bombing of cities full of civilians.)
My child: every nation-state has blood on its hands. That doesn’t mean the UN Security Council (all of whose members have blood on their hands) can’t condemn a warlord in the DR Congo for machine-gunning fifty women in a village to death.
Can Russia complain about a massacre in Syria? Of course it can.
Netanyahu has caused Jews everywhere great trouble.
This is the problem when you let psychopaths to rule…they make those that aren’t psychopaths to be complicit in their crimes through just being Jews. When non-jews talk of jews, through lazy reasoning, they think of psychopath like Netanyahu.
Why Israelis haven’t removed Netanyahu and his henchmen yet boggles the mind?
I have started to hear, before correcting themselves, people starting to talk about what is the solution to the Jewish question?
Behaviour matters, and Israel’s psychopaths and Jewish tendencies to seek revenge is now working against them around the world, the days of victimhood are over, jews are now (fair or unfair) looked on as perpetrators.
When it comes to International Law there is humanity, and then there, the exception to all rules, is the Judenreich. And to even notice this appalling situation, let alone criticise it, is pure ‘Jew-hatred’, punishable by ostracism, imprisonment and expulsion.
Here, in Austfailia, the verminous ‘Labor’ regimes says NOTHING as the slaughter in the genocidal Gaza Holocaust reaches insane intensity, but, given any chance, our cunt of a Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, will be out there spewing vitriol at China or Russia. Jewintern rule ensures moral and spiritual collapse in the slave regimes.
When you regard your victims as insects, as the Judaics do of ALL goyim, then it’s like burning a nest of cockroaches to kill a spider. OK, arthropods, then. Gaza proves the truth of all those myriad observations by figures from history-Judaism is a unique evil. Not ‘the Jews’, many of whom remain, somehow, human, but the xenophobic murder cult, at work in the genocidal Gaza Holocaust.
Many other Judeonazis OPENLY declare that the killing is NOT incidental or accidental, but joyfully deliberate. It is NOT ‘collateral damage’ but Judaic religious dogma in action.
Your comment perfectly displays the difference between Christian compassion and Jewish blind hatred.
Irrelevant. Judaism isn’t a religion so much as a cult of ethnic superiority. Palestinians aren’t the Holy Sacred Hebrews (actually, they are, but that’s beside the point.) If they’re not in the Tribe they must die!
Israel/Jews win again! Palestinians capitulating!!
If he is the only patient, and the working slave cast in the hospital have follow orders, and mass murder in the fake Pandemic, yes.
You have not wake up to what the white “society” are, and what it have done.
It slavish follow its suicidal Christian undeed Egyptian Vampire to the death.
Its of course Christians which mass murder the Jews, the Palestinians.
“Jew” as it is used by Christians are only a fictional term, as for nazi Germany.
The Jewish media and Jewish international organizations would throw a fit. I would consider throwing a party. Who defines what’s right, anyway?
Honorable Commenter Chow Mein:
The answer to your puzzlement in ¶3 is known. It can be found in writers on this site such as Laurent Guyenot and Kevin MacDonald.
It is hard to believe. Many indeed are the wonders under Heaven! The Jews have become enslaved to Babylonian Talmud Thought. They are taught that the human value of Jewish people is higher – much higher – than that of non-Jewish people, whom they call goyim. (This, however, does not include all Jews. The more intelligent ones treat their ancestral religion as a joke.)
They are like the cruel and fanatical Japanese who took part in the Rape of Nanking. The “Defence Minister” of Israel Gallant called Palestinians “human animals”. More and more people in Israel now follow a thinker called Baruch Goldstein, who wanted to make an Israel/Palestine “purified” of all Arabs. These people are not ashamed of anything.
This is why the political group “Not in Our Name”, who are humane Jews, demonstrate against the Likud regime of Netanyahu in New York City.
I hope this helps to “unboggle” your mind.