from IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 15 May 07:00
https://lemmy.world/post/29681430
The Israeli army said on Monday that it had uncovered a terror tunnel at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis following an assassination attempt on senior Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, but aerial footage released by the military shows a tunnel located beneath a nearby school.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit responded by saying that the tunnel extended beneath both the hospital and the adjacent area highlighted in the footage. However, no evidence has been presented to substantiate this claim.
The IDF released the footage on Tuesday, just hours after the strike, under the title “The European Hospital.” The video shows a building marked with signs of what is described as exposed underground infrastructure following the attack. In the statement accompanying the footage, the army claimed that “the IDF and Shin Bet security service destroyed a Hamas underground terror infrastructure located beneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.”
However, a review of the maps and aerial footage reveals that the structure is not the hospital but the nearby Jenin School. The school’s Facebook page features numerous photos of its courtyard, which is the exact location where the IDF claims the tunnel was dug.
In November, AP published an investigation reviewing the evidence the IDF presented regarding three hospitals in northern Gaza – Al-Shifa, Al-Awda and the Indonesian Hospital. The report said that Israel provided minimal, if any, evidence of a significant Hamas presence in these hospitals.
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Who are the lies even for at this point? Everyone who still supports Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza also supports bombing hospitals, they don’t need to keep pretending.
It’s been unethical since it bloody started. Israelis and Jewish have been treating Palestinians and Muslims like absolute shit since the last time IDF attacked the region, which stopped in 2005, so no surprise when the Hamas government retaliated in October 2023 the Israeli government were gagging for a reason to eradicate the whole existence. Call me biased but I felt that the IDF and its government were in the wrong ever since they bombed civilians, and were clearly evil when they kept it up. I’m pretty sure, with the first hospital (Al-Ahli I believe), they said it was actually Hamas which caused it, and later in 2024 with Al-Shifa hospital bombed to oblivion, they said this exact same thing about a tunnel. Even if Hamas was using the hospital as a shield, actually bombing it is evil.
Edit: Relevant conversation on Al-Ahli from 1.5y ago. Edited comment with more accuracy, I was confusing two hospitals.
Yeah, the genocide didn’t start on Oct 7th. It was ongoing before Hamas fought back.
But what I meant is that people didn’t know what Israel was really doing at first. There was a period where I’d be willing to forgive people for ignorantly believing Israel wasn’t deliberately bombing hospitals. They were wrong, of course, but the truth was so horrible that I understand why they couldn’t believe it. Israel is so evil it’s hard to believe.
I just think we’re far past that point. Everyone knows what’s really happening now.
IDF lying? I am shocked. Shocked!
And even if it was true, you’re still not supposed to bomb hospitals.
You’re also not really supposed to dig military tunnels under schools…
Then Israel shouldn’t have built them when they built the fucking hospital as reparations.
The first major hospital bombing and subsequent invasion then photo shoot in the tunnels revealed they were known tunnels created by Israel to allow construction crews to hide from rocket attacks and whatnot.
It was not a tunnel but a water drainage pipe.
Good to know Haaretz is still pissed at Netanyahu.
It’s always tunnels. Fuck Israel.
Israel has the means to discover and expose evidence. Israel has the need for positive PR. But Israel consistently does not provide satisfactory evidence for their actions. Best case, they only have “reasonable” suspicion from a military standpoint. At best they think they should be blowing up hospitals for reasons, but know people won’t accept the collection of evidence they have, and so this is what happens.
To rephrase for lemmings: Israel bad. Israel want evidence. Israel can get evidence. But Israel no provide evidence. Probably because there’s no evidence.
There was no need for this Hulk speech. Sounds condescending and arrogant.
Israel should not exist.
If you’re german the polizei is currently on the way.
The IDF has become the most criminal military formation in recent history, surpassing the Nazi SS.