As civilians are driven out of Beit Lahiya by Israel, paramedics are yet again targeted
Video released by Hossam Shbat, one of the few surviving journalists in northern Gaza shows Israeli occupation forces shooting the tyres and windscreen of an ambulance carrying paramedics near the Kamal Adwan hospital, the last (barely) functional hospital in the besieged territory:
Ambulances and their crews, like journalists, have frequently been targeted by Israel as it tries to ensure the victims of its genocide are neither treated not reported.
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To the shock of no one paying attention to the facts.
That’s AI targetting for you: the ambulance is dodgy because it goes from one suspected terrorist to another…
Talking of terrorists:
Here is the Official US State department Terrorist List:
https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/
Scrolling down to Mayh 15th 2014 we find this entry:
“l-Nusrah Front, aka Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (ANF/HTS)
— Jabhat Fath al-Sham Amendment (November 14, 2016)
— Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham Amendment (June 1, 2018)”
l-Nusrah Front, aka Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (ANF/HTS) are the officially designated Terrorist Group currently rampaging through Syria with Western support.
How do we know this?
Read on below…….
…….Here is, of all people, the Conservative orientated activist group Judicial Watch…..
https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf
……who file (FOIA) lawsuits to investigate claimed misconduct by government officials.
Scroll down to the top of page 3:
Quote:
“The General situation.
B. The Salafist, The Muslim Brotherhood, and AQ are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.
C. The West, Gulf countries and Turkey support the opposition, While Russia, China and Iran support the regime.
Is it a terrorist or a rebel? A wave or a particle?
Only the cats in the Deep State/MIC know.
And they are too busy grinning all over their faces licking up the cream which is the resources of other countries and peoples they destroy using their proxies and divide and rule useful idiots.
It’s all part of Biden’s shit-the-bed strategy for the incoming Trump administration and splitting Russia’s forces onto 3 fronts – revive the pet terrorists in Syria, and get the NGOs in Georgia & Romania to stir up protests against election results and – voila! – another neo-con WW3 brinkmanship shitshow to keep us all awake at night!
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Concerning the Syrian terrorist groups who are, once again, the darlings of the Western Political and Media classes:
Considering the Telegraph article – link below – (which is merely one example, among many, of the Public Relations makeover Government funded and supported – including by the Conservative Opposition – Jihadists are getting in the Western Media) I came across this relevant question this morning:
“So, now the terrorist head-choppers are flavour-of-the-week heroes in the West, can Shamima Begum come home?”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/03/syria-diversity-friendly-jihadists-plan-building-state/
Aw, it’s behind a paywall! (You subscribe to the Telegraph?!) Thanks for the thought, anyway…
Meanwhile, here’s two former CIA analysts providing some perspectives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYgmEG…
“They are receiving from the United States, indirectly, training, intelligence, & weapons. & those weapons now are being used against the Shia & the Alawites & the Christians in Syria.
So the United States now, think about this, wrap your brain around it, the United States is supplying weapons and lethal ‘aid’ to the very terrorists that attacked us on 9/11.
That’s how far we’ve fallen & we’re using our military to attack the Shia elements, the Alawite elements, the Syrian Army that’s trying to defeat those terrorists…..
We’re supplying aid to the very terrorists who have been attacking the West.”
– Larry Johnson
Came across this a bit earlier on JVL’s website, posted yesterday – i.e. an article in Haaretz published a couple of days ago. The following is from the JVL introduction:
« Israeli historian Lee Mordechai has compiled a massive archive of material called “Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War” which Ha’aretz says “constitutes the most methodical and detailed documentation in Hebrew (there is also an English translation) of the war crimes that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza. It is a shocking indictment comprised of thousands of entries relating to the war, to the actions of the government, the media, the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli society in general.” »
And here’s a link direct to the Haaretz piece:
« A Massive Database of Evidence, Compiled by a Historian, Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
A woman with a child is shot while waving a white flag . Starving girls are crushed to death in line for bread. A cuffed 62-year-old man is run over, evidently by a tank. An aerial strike targets people trying to help a wounded boy. A database of thousands of videos, photos, testimonies, reports and investigations documents the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza.
by Nir Hasson, Ha’aretz »
https://archive.ph/2024.12.05-185711/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-05/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/massive-database-of-evidence-compiled-by-a-historian-details-israels-war-crimes-in-gaza/00000193-979b-d408-a7d3-bfdbf1410000
But it’s all just Israel defending itself of course, as Starmer and Lammy and Biden and Blinken et al keep telling us.
And needless to say, please share widely.
And here are a couple of things which occured to me a couple of days ago (as posted by me on Craig Murray’s website):
On page 222 of the Amnesty International report it says the following:
In its October 2024 letters to the Hamas authorities, Amnesty International asked Hamas about Israel’s claims that it was using mosques, cultural sites and critical infrastructure for military purposes. In a November 2024 response, Hamas’s Political and International Relations Department denied that Hamas was using or conducting military operations in or near health, educational, cultural or religious sites and said that the Israeli military had failed to substantiate its claims with evidence.
As with the numerous schools where civilians were sheltering and the IDF bombed them because – or so they claimed – Hamas had a command center at the location, surely the only way the IDF could have determined that that was the case is from a drone, or drones, surveying the building(s), in which case they must have video footage/proof/evidence, as such. I’ve only read this particular section of the report, but I would have thought that Amnesty International asked Israel how they determined that Hamas were present in said locations (prior to bombing them) and, if they did ask them, I very much doubt they recieved a reply to the question.
NB In the section I read it referred to a letter Amnesty sent to the Israeli Ministry of Defence enquiring about such and such…
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I see from the BBC article about the Amnesty Report that ‘In the past day…. at least 50 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza’, and that ‘At least 23 people were killed and many more wounded in an air strike on a camp for displaced people in al-Mawasi in Khan Younis’, and that yet AGAIN:
Israel’s military said its attack targeted senior Hamas operatives acting in what it considers a humanitarian zone. “Following the strike, secondary explosions were identified, suggesting the presence of weaponry in the area,” it said in a statement.
It said it had taken steps “to mitigate the risk of harming civilians” and accused Hamas of using civilians “as human shields for terrorist activity”.
I have little doubt that the military are lying through their nasty rotten teeth again, but as I said in a post earlier in effect, surely the only way the IDF could have identified these alleged senior Hamas operatives is by a drone – or drones – and so therefore there must be footage and, as such, proof that these senior Hamas operatives were in the camp in al-Mawasi.
I mean if we were to take the IDF at its word, then every single time they identify Hamas fighters (or operatives, whatever that’s supposed to mean) in locations where civilians are sheltering, they bomb the location anyway, so therefore the people sheltering there DON’T deter the IDF/Israeli air force from bombing the location and Hamas, and so Hamas are hardly gonna hole up in such locations if the civilians DON’T act as a human shield.
In other words, Israel would have us believe that Hamas keep using such locations where civilians are sheltering so as to deter Israel from bombing them, and yet it never does, so therefore Israel is obviously lying when it claims Hamas use the people sheltering there as human shields, because these ‘human shields’ are non-existent.
Allen _
“every single time they identify Hamas fighters (or operatives, whatever that’s supposed to mean)”
Like so much else we witness, not just daily but hourly, the bottom line is whose subjective definition is being applied here and who is doing the counting (hat tip to Stuart Campbell at Wings Over Scotland) .
The Official Narrative (TON) of the Israeli’s in practice is that every Palestinian is a Hamas Terrorist – including babies in the womb.
And we constantly witness and are bombarded by this post-modernist bullshit approach of applying subjective definitions to suit a narrative.
Including the consistent attempts by very obvious bad faith actors to re-define out of all recognition any counterargument to The Official Narrative (TON) they are pushing, even to the point of outright slander by those involved – often hiding like cowards behind online pseudonyms to avoid taking personal responsibility for the consequences of their spiteful, evidence free bile.
Caitlin Johnstone posted this excellent piece yesterday:
The Real Villains
The CEO of health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare was gunned down by a masked assailant on Wednesday, much to the delight of Americans who’ve been suffering under their nation’s abusive healthcare system and the sociopathic profiteers who make their fortunes exploiting them through it.
UnitedHealthcare has an unusually high rate of claim denials, even compared to its fellow predatory health insurance companies, and as CEO of the company Brian Thompson was personally raking in $10.2 million a year…
The conversations this story has sparked are very interesting. I’ve seen a lot of posts online highlighting the fact that the murder victim in this case was himself a murderer, and a much more prolific one than any serial killer or mass shooter who’s ever lived. The only difference was that his style of murder was protected by the law.
This really nails home the point that the legal system is not intended to protect ordinary citizens from the worst people in our society, it’s there to protect the very worst in our society from ordinary citizens…
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-real-villains-00bd77bfefaf
Allen –
An example of what I highlighted above in my previous reply to you is to access an Official Narrative site created for that purpose, which purports to discredit any non-official source you might quote in order to avoid and distract from the valid, evidence based, points being made.
This infantile practice normally takes the form of a link to some deliberately manufactured hit piece full of ad-hominin attacks – playing the man rather than the ball.
And is usually prefaced with the words “you mean this[ fill in the blank name of the hit piece target] .
However, once you progress past this bullshit by sticking to the salient point, presenting the evidence to substantiate the argument presented which such bad faith actors are desperately seeking to avoid by muddying the waters with such straw man arguments, and reasonably requesting the presentation of evidence to support the counterargument, you are left with a response based on a temper tantrum which hurls evidence free playground level invective and bile at you for having the temerity to disagree with the one true faith.
It is very easy to wind these toddlers up using this evidence based approach. As well as fascinatingly entertaining to watch them unravel in their their tantrum online as they vent their spleen in impotent frustration at their realised inability to back up their bullshit. Resorting to the only thing they have left, name-calling. Like a little mardy arsed kid a playground.
Who CAN you be talking about, Dave…?!
Ah, United Health, sponsors of our own Health Secretary’s private office. Wonder whether Screeching will attend the funeral…
Off topic from KernowDamo:
MASSIVE questions need answering of the Department for Work & Pensions and the Labour govt as a whole in what should be a huge scandal!…
The situation involves the growing use of Artificial Intelligence in government department decision making, specifically the AI use by the DWP because shock horror, colour me surprised, the AI algorithm has inbuilt biases against certain demographics, because no safeguarding and fairness analysis was undertaken before rolling the AI system out and now, the government have been caught with their pants down over it.
DWP CAUGHT Deliberately Setting Benefit Claimants Up For A Fall?
Off topic from KernowDamo:
MASSIVE questions need answering of the Department for Work & Pensions and the Labour govt as a whole in what should be a huge scandal!…
The situation involves the growing use of Artificial Intelligence in government department decision making, specifically the AI use by the DWP because shock horror, colour me surprised, the AI algorithm has inbuilt biases against certain demographics, because no safeguarding and fairness analysis was undertaken before rolling the AI system out and now, the government have been caught with their pants down over it.
DWP CAUGHT Deliberately Setting Benefit Claimants Up For A Fall?
Don’t know how that happened!? Gremlins must be at work!