You heard it on NPR, BBC, MSNBC, or read it in The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times. Those dastardly Israelis are at It again: they’ve just wantonly bombed “a school” in Jabalya camp in northern Gaza. This conjures up heartrending scenes of innocent children being killed by the mad-dog killers of the IDF. In point of fact, the Abu Hassan School has not been a school for many months. It has been, rather , a meeting place for senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, a place to hide both combatants and enormous caches of weapons. It should be accurately described not as a “school,” but as a “school building that Hamas and PIJ have taken over to hide both men and weapons.”
More on this attack that the world has been told was on a school can be found here: “IAF strikes Gaza school housing Hamas terrorists, filled with pro-October 7 propaganda,” Jerusalem Post, October
The Israel Air Force (IAF) conducted a precise strike on an operational meeting point for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Jabalya in the Gaza Strip, the military said on Thursday.
The operation, using intelligence and under the direction of the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), struck the terrorists who operated inside a command center embedded inside a compound that previously served as the Abu Hassan School in northern Gaza.
This was a precise attack on an operational meeting of senior Hamas and PIJ operatives. The IDF and Shin Bet had intelligence that senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members would be meeting there; they even had the names of a dozen of the participants.
Remember, this building was no longer a school. The terrorists had turned it into a command-and-control center that was embedded in what had once been, but was no longer, it must be endlessly repeated, the Abu Hassan School. That should have been made clear by Western media, who keep poisoning audiences world-wide against Israel by claiming that the IDF “hit a school” or “struck a mosque” (mosques too have been used by terrorists who hide both themselves and weapons in them) or “hit a hospital,” without ever explaining that those “schools” and “mosques” and “hospitals” were all being used.by Hamas to hide weapons, men, and rocket launchers.
At the time of the strike, dozens of terrorists were present in the compound, the military stated. These terrorists include Hussam Muhammad Atiya Salah, Ahmad Abd al-Naser Awad Hamdouna, Akram Maher Namar Zaqoul, Ahmad Abd al-Rahman Mahmoud Abu al-Jabeen, Mustafa Ali Khalil Ouda, Muhammad Abdullah Abd al-Rahman Tamraz, Muhammad Muhammad Rafat Hussein Daher, Mahmoud Musa Abd al-Wahab Atal, Abd al-Karim Hassan Awad Hamdouna, Youssef Hosni Ali Salem, Muhammad Samih Atwa Sheir, Abd al-Rahman Fawzi Kamel….
Nary a school child among them. These were all hardened terrorists, who had been using what had once been a school — but had ceased to be many months ago — and now was a regular meeting place for Hamas terrorists plotting their next moves against the Israelis. The IDF discovered pro-October 7 propaganda covering its blackboards. It also found massive amounts of weapons that had. been warehoused in what had once been a school. Hamas clearly was hoping that the IDF would be reluctant to hit what it knew would be described by Western reporters as a “school.” The IDF weighed the value of the terrorists assembled in the building against the propaganda value to Hamas of the predictable reports about “the IDF attacks a school,” found the former outweighed the latter, and went ahead.
Hamas has since denied using the Abu Hussein school in Jabalya, saying it was serving as shelter for displaced people.
Hamas didn’t dare maintain that the school building was being used as a school, so it claimed instead that it was being used as a shelter for displaced people — you know, those Gazans whom those terrible Israelis warn to move from places the IDF is about to be targeted, in order to get them out of harm’s way.
So there we have it: one more example — there have been so many — where Israel is accused in the media worldwide of attacking a “school” that is no longer a school, but a hideout for Hamas men and weapons, or a “mosque” that does double duty as a warehouse for rockets and missiles, or a “hospital” where terrorists have taken over whole wards where their members are counting on the frightened-into-silence medical personnel to serve as human shields against IDF attacks.
Write to those newspapers, telephone your radio and television stations, when next you read or hear that the IDF has struck a school, a mosque, or a hospital, and set them straight. Many will ignore those complaints, but some will listen. Explain to these journalists exactly what other information about those sites in Gaza, that made them legitimate targets, should be provided.
somehistory says
Any lie will do. by now, every one paying attention knows that the mozlum terrorists delight in making their own families, friends and neighbors victims of the war so they can appear to be the innocent side.
This ‘school’ business has made more rounds in the msn than the **real** school where children were murdered by mozlum terrorists in Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege
hamas terrorists took over hospitals, schools, and even had their tunnels begin in the bedrooms of small children.
mozlums the world over….even in the U.S….store weapons and bomb-making materials in their barracks where they bend the knees and backs to satan and pretend to pray. Those barracks make good hiding places for when the time is right. After all, every barracks is a forward location…a fort…to be used when they are fully taking over a nation.
Schools are frequently used by governments when they need places to house emergency personnel, house people displaced by hazardous conditions (storms, quakes, etc.) and even recently, to house illegals brought in to the country .
this “school” business is just another in the long list of lies meant to make Israel look bad enough that the pressure to cease fighting the terrorists will be great enough to make them stop fighting.
Ray Jarman says
+1
Somehistory, an excellent opine and if I might add, the press loves to lie about Israel and then refuses to report on the slaughter of children in Nigeria and other countries in Africa. The absence of news is by definition a lie and it is sad when one cannot trust the words they print or speak.
somehistory says
thank you, Ray, and thanks for the extended response. It is sad that we can’t trust anything we see or hear from those who claim to be telling us what we need to know.
James Lincoln says
Tragically true, somehistory.
The truth can be found in trusted conservative websites (e.g., Jihad Watch, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, etc.,) but it takes a disciplined effort.
The average academically lazy American is not going to bother – and will continue to lap up the lamestream lies of commission and omission.
somehistory says
Yes, James, and I believe that is one reason the hyena has any support at all. and why people like pelosi, aoc, pressley, elmi, and tlaib have the support they do. It’s truly a sick society and seems to be worse every day.
BTW, Beck played some of what Mr. Trump said at that dinner a few nights ago. He was very funny, but also, was very Truthful.
Imagine, schumer could be the ‘first female president.’ If the hyena loses.
somehistory says
OT
The Times of Israel
“Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem fled Lebanon and is now living in Tehran — report”
“Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem has been residing in Tehran after fleeing Lebanon on an Iranian plane over two weeks ago, the UAE-based Erem News outlet reports, quoting an anonymous Iranian source.
Qassem reportedly left Beirut on October 5 on the aircraft used by Tehran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi for a state visit to Lebanon and Syria. His transfer was ordered by top leaders of the Islamic Republic for fear of assassination by Israel, the source says.
Qassem has delivered three speeches since the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. While the first was recorded in Beirut, the second and third were delivered in Tehran, the source says.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hezbollah-deputy-leader-naim-qassem-fled-lebanon-and-is-now-living-in-tehran-report/ar-AA1sAlEa?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=60c64a4af6ea4affb4e7238aaa245ed1&ei=32
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, that’s the only reason Israel hasn’t already hunted him down. Although given the attack on Netanyahu’s home yesterday, they do need to eviscerate what’s left of Hizbullah arms in Lebanon
If Israel were to start taking out targets in Teheran, they should start w/ the grand Ayatollah, and only after that, target anyone else
Ray Jarman says
+1
Infidel, both you and Somehistory speak the truth.
somehistory says
thank you, again, Ray.
Taffy says
“ Write to those newspapers, telephone your radio and television stations, when next you read or hear that the IDF has struck a school, a mosque, or a hospital, and set them straight. Many will ignore those complaints, but some will listen. Explain to these journalists exactly what other information about those sites in Gaza, that made them legitimate targets, should be provided.”
I have 3 analogies to describe such efforts:
1) pissing into the wind,
2) farting against thunder, and
3) shoveling s**t against the tide.
These “journalists” are fully aware of the fake news that they report, but they do i5 anyway because it is fashionable to jump on the anti-Israel, pro Hamas, pro Hizb’allah, pro Muslim bandwagon (which this media itself perpetrates).
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well, Hizbullah hit a school playground in Golan a few weeks ago, killing some 10 Druze kids who were playing soccer. That’s what started the Israeli war on Hizbullah
Since NPR, BBC, MSNBC, Guardian, Washington Post or New York Times can’t say anything about that incident, they have no business saying a thing about the Israeli Air Force, even if they did end up bombing kids
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“The IDF weighed the value of the terrorists assembled in the building against the propaganda value to Hamas of the predictable reports about “the IDF attacks a school,” found the former outweighed the latter, and went ahead.”
What is the source of this information about what the IDF was thinking? The IDF? The writer’s inference?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The latter, based on what the longstanding stated policy has been of the IDF
OLD GUY says
Why are the media so intent on supporting everything anti Israel? Or for that matter anti-American. Make me wonder who the real owners of these media giants really are.
Tony Rice says
It needs the I D F to sue a major worldwide known broadcasting company of peddling untruths, lies and mis-information, demanding billions in compensation to make them sit up and be more careful in the future. Nothing like bad publicity to ruin a media’s reputation.
David says
If and when a church, mosque, hospital, ambulance, or school is used for military purposes, it loses its protected status and becomes a legitimate military target.