From Deir Yassin to Al-Ahli Hospital: Israel’s legacy of killing Palestinians
from thefreeonline on October 18, 2023 By Nasim Ahmed at Middle East Monitor

Images of dead and bloodied toddlers lined up on a hospital stretcher stirred outrage in Gaza and the West Bank [Screengrab/Telegram]
Israel’s propaganda machine has begun to work overtime to convince the world of the occupation state’s innocence in the bombing of Al-Ahli Arab Hospital .
Complicit in the destruction of Gaza, Western leaders aided by the media have also started to work round the clock to dutifully parrot the lies, amplifying the fog of war.
US President Joe Biden, who was the first Western leader to repeat the gruesome Israeli lie about 40 beheaded babies, dutifully trumpeted the Israeli narrative that a misfired Hamas rocket killed 500 people.

The playbook is all too familiar.
- First blanket denial.
- Then blame militants.
- As the truth emerges, Israelis cry “mistake”, “just an accident”.
- When that fails to quell public outrage and people demand accountability, Israel shouts anti-Semitism.
- And when all else fails, critics are denounced as Nazis and fascists in their twisted narrative.
This course has been charted before. The same smokescreens used to obscure the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh are being deployed once again.
We don’t require a forensic investigation – though one should be carried out by an independent body – to hold Israel responsible for the bombing of Al-Ahli Arab Hospital.

Israel has been openly pre-justifying hospital bombing and school bombing before launching its military campaign. It’s been pre-justifying war crimes, declaring with no fear of accountability that it will impose collective punishment by denying Gazans electricity, water and food.
Israel’s denial is not credible, also because the occupation state has a long history of committing atrocities and massacres against Palestinians.
For decades, the brutal realities of massacres were suppressed, details buried. But slowly they came to light – stories of indiscriminate slaughter, rape, torture and exile, of defenceless civilians.
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