Let’s talk about Israel again because I want to know your thoughts – how long before what’s happening in Gaza happens to you?
I see two reports on the BBC News website this morning. One states:
A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip.
They were in a Quds Today van parked outside al-Awda hospital, where the wife of one of the journalists was about to give birth, in the central Nuseirat refugee camp.
The channel posted a video of what it said was the burning vehicle with “press” signage on the back doors.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had targeted “Islamic Jihad operatives posing as journalists” and that steps were taken to avoid harming civilians.
The BBC has not been able to verify claims made by either side, with international media being prevented by Israel from entering and freely working on the ground in Gaza.
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The other reports:
Israeli forces have detained and interrogated medical staff after forcibly evacuating the last major hospital in northern Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital,Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, was among those taken for questioning by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which accused him of “being a Hamas terrorist operative”, without providing evidence.
On Friday an estimated 50 people, including medical staff were killed in Israeli air strikes targeting the vicinity of the hospital, the health ministry said.
The IDF said it had carried out an operation there, alleging the hospital was a “Hamas terrorist stronghold”.
You can see the problem highlighted by both reports, I hope – that Israeli forces are preventing any verification of what has happened in order to propogate a highly questionable narrative that This Writer certainly doesn’t believe for a moment.
And most of us just sit and watch and do nothing. Is that in the belief that it could never happen here?
If so, I have some bad news for you, encapsulated in the words of another social media user, who stated:
Wherever you are in the world, you should be very scared about what is being permitted to happen to Palestinians.
You should be very scared that journalists are being targeted, killed, jailed and tortured. And this should make you question every outlet that has not covered their targeting.
You should be very scared as to how every hospital has been targeted along with its doctors… You should be very scared that not every doctor and person in the medical field has… expressed outrage.
The person posting those words added:
Might be a good time to re-read the Niemoller verse. The height of privilege to think it can’t happen to you.
This might be a good time to remind you that journalists have been arrested here in the UK, and their equipment seized, for reporting the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. And with nobody to report on atrocities, what reason would our own government have, not to commit them?
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How long before what’s happening in Gaza happens to you?
Let’s talk about Israel again because I want to know your thoughts – how long before what’s happening in Gaza happens to you?
I see two reports on the BBC News website this morning. One states:
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The other reports:
You can see the problem highlighted by both reports, I hope – that Israeli forces are preventing any verification of what has happened in order to propogate a highly questionable narrative that This Writer certainly doesn’t believe for a moment.
And most of us just sit and watch and do nothing. Is that in the belief that it could never happen here?
If so, I have some bad news for you, encapsulated in the words of another social media user, who stated:
The person posting those words added:
This might be a good time to remind you that journalists have been arrested here in the UK, and their equipment seized, for reporting the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. And with nobody to report on atrocities, what reason would our own government have, not to commit them?
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