Both the Palestinian Authority, and many Arab governments, have been incensed about the Israeli raid to rescue four hostages held captive in Gaza. They are all up in arms about what they uniformly call a “massacre,” but fail to mention the reason for the raid, as if it were just another case of those mad-dog Israeli murderers wantonly attacking peaceful and, of course, “innocent” civilians. More on this reaction can be found here: “Official Palestinian Authority news doesn’t mention the rescue once but claims there was a ‘massacre,'” Elder of Ziyon, June 9, 2024:
The official Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa had many stories about the events in the Nuseirat camp yesterday = but readers would have no idea that four Israeli hostages were rescued. To the Palestinian media, it was merely a senseless “massacre.’
The initial news story said,
80 citizens were martyred, the majority of them children and women, and others were injured, today, Saturday, as a result of the intense occupation bombardment, by land, sea and air, on the Central Governorate in the central Gaza Strip, specifically the Nuseirat camp, which witnessed unprecedented aggression, for more than two hours.
The followup:
The death toll of the massacre, carried out by the Israeli occupation forces as a result of targeting the central governorate in the central Gaza Strip, especially the Nuseirat camp, rose today, Saturday, to 210 martyrs and more than 400 injured.
The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry kept increasing the numbers of the Gazans killed from 70 to 80 to 110, then to 210, to 240, and finally, they seem to have settled on 274 “innocent civilians, many of them women and children,” who were killed, as well as “700 wounded.” We are not given any reason why the IDF would have launched such a massive attack. We are expected to chalk it up to the pure murderous malice of the Zionists.
Our correspondent said that military vehicles suddenly entered the areas east and northwest of the Nuseirat camp, coinciding with violent artillery shelling that targeted large areas of the camp.
The occupation vehicles also penetrated near the Wadi Gaza Bridge on the Salah al-Din Road in the center of the Gaza Strip, and expanded their incursion east of Deir al-Balah and into the Bureij and al-Maghazi camps….
But why did those “military vehicles” suddenly enter the area? What prompted the Israelis to start their “violent artillery shelling”?
And again, explain to us please, why were those IDF vehicles penetrating “near the Wadi Gaza Bridge on the Salah al-Dine Road”? Why there, exactly? What was going on in the Nuseirat camp? Had there been gunfire or shelling from inside the camp on IDF soldiers? No? Then what was it all about?
Amazing, isn’t it, that neither the Egyptians, nor the Jordanians, nor the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, appear to feel the need to explain why the IDF went into the Nuseirat camp. But for them, it’s no mystery; the Israelis are born killers of “innocent Palestinian civilians.” The Israelis’ behavior was just one more example of the IDF’s wanton killing, yet again, of mostly “women and children.” It’s what the innocent and peaceful Palestinians have come to expect from the Zionist entity — “organized state terrorism and the crime of genocide.”
And we are left, if we rely on the statements provided by Palestinian Authority, or the Egyptian or Jordanian governments, or the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, still puzzled, still wondering what made the Israelis suddenly enter, and just as suddenly – within two hours – leave the Nuseirat camp, having supposedly behaved, or so half the world wants us to believe, with inexplicable savagery.
Bruce David Watt says
given the ratio of 4 to 610 the hamass /palis should be prepared for 18,300 more casualties soon to be martyrs. should be fun
Mike says
Bruce: if those figures are indeed true. It’s likely HamAssed bullshit though, like when they claimed that the Christian hospital had been bombed by the IDF and 700 people had been killed.
In reality, the hospital hadn’t been bombed, it was a parking lot in front of the hospital, which had only killed 50-60 people, and not hundreds. Moreover, the missile had been from a jihadist group (not Hamas, but a similar one), and had accidentally landed in the parking lot, killing those people.
mgoldberg says
The elephant in the room as such is what occured status post the pali’s lying like the jihadist hypocrites and would be murderers of others that they are- they announced that any attempts to rescue any hostages will call for them to be killed. That is what should be announced to all the media.
OLD GUY says
“Well but of course” Can’t admit to criminal actions of Kidnaping, Rape and Murder can they. That might effect cash flow from Washington and lose some protestors supporting their illegal actions.