Red herrings all over
Israel pulled its troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and two years later, Hamas took power.
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Daily TribuneIsrael pulled its troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and two years later, Hamas took power.
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The United Nations is falling hopelessly into the clutches of Hamas with its recent statements that establish suspicions that anti-Israel sentiment has taken over the multilateral organization.
Hamas, which had mastered the art of deception, has calculated the falsehoods being spread to lure a gullible world into its ultimate objective of obliterating Israel from the global map.
The usual victim of the Hamas deception is the United Nations, which is more than willing to adopt the line of the terror group.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the solution to the Gaza crisis is the end of the occupation and full respect for the right to self-determination for Palestinians.
"For the violence to end, the 'occupation' needs to end. Member States need to invest all the effort that is necessary into finding a sustainable peace for all Palestinians and Israelis.
Israel pulled its troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and two years later, Hamas took power of the Strip's government, belying Turk's claim of an occupation.
On Saturday, the IDF received reports of a hit on the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The Hamas-run media office in the Gaza Strip immediately claimed that this was a strike carried out by the IDF.
IDF examination, however, indicated that a misfired projectile launched by terrorist organizations inside the Gaza Strip hit the Al-Shifa Hospital. The misfired projectile was aimed at IDF troops operating in the vicinity.
In an earlier event, headlines of the explosion at another Gaza hospital, Al-Ahli Arab, quickly put the onus on Israel.
It was a classic example of the deft misinformation of the Hamas machinery that even The New York Times led with the headline on its website's front page, "Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say."
The venerable publication took the claims by the Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry at face value before the Israeli military or government was able to investigate and provide evidence.
Eventually, The New York Times had to issue an unprecedented acknowledgment that its incident coverage should have been more rigorous.
It said its initial reports "relied too heavily on claims by Hamas and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified."
"The report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was," NYT's note said.
CNN also ran with the headline on its website, "Palestinian officials say 200-300 people may have been killed in an Israeli strike on the hospital," without any evidence, other than from the Hamas-affiliated officials in Gaza, that it was an Israeli airstrike.
World leaders then became complicit in the lie; without evidence, some international leaders and organizations were quick to condemn Israel and blame it for the strike.
Egypt also blamed Israel for the explosion, saying that it was a "deliberate bombing of civilians" and called on Israel to "immediately stop policies of collective punishment."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the purported strike "the latest example devoid of the most basic human values."
Israel's President Isaac Herzog called the media accusations that Israel hit a hospital in Gaza a "blood libel."
"An Islamic Jihad missile has killed many Palestinians at a Gazan hospital — a place where lives should be saved," Herzog wrote on X.
"Shame on the media who swallow the lies of Hamas and Islamic Jihad — broadcasting a 21st-century blood libel around the globe. Shame on the vile terrorists in Gaza who willfully spill the blood of the innocent," he said.
While Israel racks up victories in the ground offensive against Hamas, the terrorist is being handed successes on a golden platter by the bleeding hearts who have proved their exceptional gullibility to the siren song of the terrorists.
