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Why Is Israel Being Blamed for the Battle of Kamal Adwan Hospital?
(Spectator-UK) Brendan O'Neill - In their coverage of the Battle of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, much of the media is burying, if not outright hiding, the most vital part of this tale - that a neo-fascist militia is using a hospital as a base from which to plot the murder of Israel's soldiers and citizens. When I watch news coverage of the clashes in and around Kamal Adwan, it is very clearly a fight between Hamas militants cynically holed up in a hospital and IDF troops who want to stop this army from attacking their nation. Yet it is presented to us as a mad, bloodlusting invasion of a medical facility by that most psychopathic of nations, Israel, which lays waste to hospitals for sport. What's really appalling is what Hamas has done. They have committed the war crime of hiding in civilian infrastructure to pursue their pitiless war on the Jewish nation. But you wouldn't know it from the headlines. The real story here is that there exists a terror outfit so wicked it will happily hide itself in a hospital, and that the army of a democratic nation has decided to clear the hospital of these killers. Yet the terrorists who brought war to a hospital are made invisible, and so rendered blameless. Israel is fighting a war it did not start.