Israel’s systematic onslaught against the hospitals of Gaza is a war crime

The tragedies in Gaza are sad for humanity in general and more so for the innocent families caught in the conflict on both sides. Maybe both armies should go out into the open somewhere and slaughter each other to their mutual satisfaction, but sadly that never happens in war. War always involves civilians. Wars are full of human tragedy, caused by humans despising those fellow humans that are different from them and also about power, not about soldiers. Lenin killed around 8 million and Hitler some 12 million, including some 6 million Jews, based on race, ethnicity and "religion". The problem with this lady's article -passionate as she rightly derserves to be - is firstly that inflamed rhetoric (on both sides and from any side, doesn't really help) - she calls it a "war crime" but simultaneously says "this is not a war" - which is her stance - war or not? It seems Hamas and Israel have each declared war on the other. Secondly she starts with the Israeli response - which some will argue is over the top and others will argue appropriate or not enough. Ceratinly when children die, deep questions are appropriate. Thirdly, US security intelligence in the very same press on the very same day supports the view that hospitals are used as shields and military bases by Hamas. It would be helpful if they come forward with the proof. However, the start of this latest tragedy was not the Israeli response but allegedly was the Hamas invasion of Israel involving the alleged slaughter, rape and murder of some 1,200 civilians. Go back further if you wish to 2007 and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the Hamas election after that Middle East war, or even the 2nd world war and the creation of the Israeli state, or all the way back to the Bible and the Jews returning to the "Holy" Land from Egypt; pick your origin for this war. She is silent on the latest initial Hamas attack in late 2023 and how could she realistically expect no response from Israel at all - not that I am defending them either. It has taken the Irish nation around 400 years to realise that killing each other for "religion" - largely Catholic vs Protestant - doesn't really work. It has taken the Christian and Moslem world no less than 1,000 years (ongoing from the "Crusades" and counting) to fight over "religion" also - "my God/my Allah is the only God". Pol Pot killed 2 to 3 million in Cambodia and the list (Biafra, Ukraine, Central Africa) around the planet is much longer. So the best hope for Israel and Hamas is probably another few hundred years. Isn't' "religion" - all types and variants - coupled to ethnicity the real source of conflict in the world - and a curse rather than an asset to the planet? Isn't religion just an outdated employment scheme for radical believers and fanatics on both sides who are really interested in power and just use God as a convenient excuse to get it.

There were 1.2 million Palestinians in 1948. Today there are over 7 million. If Israel is genocidal she's a total failure.

The same tired old narrative. There's plenty of video evidence that Hamas uses hospitals and schools to base their military installations. That makes them a legitimate target and is, in fact, considered a war crime in its own right.

Using hospitals and schools as human shields is a war crime...of note!

Frank Barat interviewing Dr Nurit Peled is worth a listen - it is on UTube. Also Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim , Norman Finkelstein , Noam Chomsky - all professors. Interviews aavailable on UTube.

The citizens of Gaza are complicit. They knew exactly what was going on under their schools, hospitals and mosques. The doctors and hospital administrators must have seen, heard, felt all the tunneling taking place under their facilities. The Imans knew their mosques were being used. If Hamas really care for the people of Gaza they should surrender and hand over the hostages.

"Void of influence from Zionist propaganda and mainstream media outlets with agendas fueled by political motives, her stories are real, raw, shattering and heartbreaking." Live feed of human shields ...

It is irrelevant now who bombed the Al-Ahli hospital, since Israel has bombed and attacked almost every other hospital since then. I guess there is a pressing need to remove one war crime out of another dozen.

This Human Shields line keeps coming up as an excuse for slaughtering Palestinian civilians. The city is the only thing worth defending in Gaza, and the only place for a resistance movement to hide. It is the only home they have as well. So people expect them to pitch their tents out in the open and march in formation in the desert? Ukraine has also defended some of its cities fighting block by block, with a residual civilian population, and nobody called them names. This happened during World War 2 as well. When the US led coalition was fighting ISIS in Iraq, they had to cities like Mosul and Fallujah block by block. They did not bomb the cities to complete rubble with the civilian population inside. The true cowards are the IDF who sit back and unleash tons of bombs on a captive civilian population, because they can. War crimes. Gaze is a small place and criss-crossed with tunnels, which they had to do to avoid the air power. There almost certainly are tunnels under the Al-Shifa hospital to facilitate movement. No massive command and control centre has been found. Every Israeli hospital has armed security, so why the shock and horror if a few guns have been found? Even CNN said those pictures seem to have been staged. Half the stuff the comes out of the IDF is lies, and another quarter fabricated. Typical is their messaging when they murdered journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The western press still laps it up without verification.

Something fishy here! Trying to fix the 'symptoms' of this war and not the cause? Please tell me. What kind of warrior would start a WAR and then hide among civilians when the hell break loose? Isn't the bigger atrocity those terrorists that abuse their own civilians to shield themselves from the wrath of war? Why don't they choose a battlefield seperated from women and children and fight the Israeli soldiers there, like real warriors? There's another aspect to this war dilemma! Are those civilians (women, children and sick people in hospitals) really innocent or are they all undercover terrorists? They have been living with Hamas for decades , supported Hamas, associated with Hamas ... why should they be exonerated from the consequences of war? It's a war crime to employ civilians as undercover terrorists and Hamas must account for this deceptive war crime of theirs. N0body that has associated with Hamas is 'innocent' in this war ... irrespective of gender or age. Come on Ayeesha Soni, your choice of ' innocent victims' is suspect, it speaks of selective morality and undermines your credibility as a journalist.