Those who have overinvested in the notion that Israel is conducting its campaign against Hamas with negligent excess cannot be rationalized out of a conclusion to which rationality did not contribute. For everyone else, though, the accuracy of Israel’s claims about the Shifa hospital complex is approaching the point of irrefutability.

Over the weekend, Israel uncovered evidence supporting its claim that the hospital’s staff colluded with Hamas terrorists to hide the Israelis and foreign nationals in Israel who were kidnapped and taken to Gaza on October 7. …

At the very least, the evidence Israel is presenting of the partial conversion of Shifa Hospital into a military facility should impose a crisis of conscience on the global press. The sources inside Gaza that retail dubious casualty figures attributed to Israeli military action, who insist that its medical facilities are so overrun with at-risk patients that they cannot be evacuated, who insist that Israelis are deliberately firing on medical personnel — all of them should be regarded with suspicion. That’s not too much to ask.

[It clearly is for the American media, and to its cousins in the UK and Europe, apparently. I discussed that in my earlier post, but add to that this image that got published later today showing a child taken hostage in Israel being forced into al-Shifa. — Ed]

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— הגורו (@daardos) November 20, 2023