Hamas’ War on Israel and Gazans

For a reminder of Hamas’ utter erasure of the distinction between soldiers and civilians, consider the recent IDF operation at Gaza’s Al-Amal Hospital — carried out without firing a single shot or disrupting any medical procedures.

It captured some 20 Hamas killers hiding in a building meant for healing the sick; the hospital’s staff aided the soldiers in their capture of the terrorists. The Israelis followed up this bloodless triumph by supervising a delivery of oxygen tanks to the hospital. It’s the whole story of this war, writ small. A cadre of Islamist murderers commits a war crime by using civilian infrastructure as camouflage, putting innocent lives (this is a working hospital) at risk to further their genocidal mission against the Jewish state.

Israel’s response is precise and, targeted, and followed up by a humanitarian gesture. And the Palestinians working in the hospital take the side of their alleged “oppressors.”

But who can blame them? The citizens of Gaza know exactly who and what caused their current predicament: Hamas, its cowardly tactics and the blood-spattered leadership living a luxe life far from the battle in Doha. For God’s sake, a Hamas tunnel was just discovered under the HQ of the United Nation Relief and Works Agency in Gaza.

The conflation of civil and military life is essential to the group’s operation, a strategy responsible for the loss of Palestinian civilian life, losses Israel is keeping to a minimum.

The pro-terror left in the West inverts this truth when it fronts for Hamas.