Adding to concerns about the Israeli military’s deliberate targeting of civilian facilities during last summer’s Gaza War, Major Amihai Harach confirmed today that the attack on a medical clinic in the Gaza Strip was deliberate, and was done to “raise morale” among Israeli soldiers invading the area.
The incident became news again late last month, when an audio recording of an Israeli colonel was released in which he ordered troops to attack the clinic to “honor” slain Armored Corps Captain Dima Levitas, who was killed in the same area. The attack took place during the funeral of Levitas.
The attack on the clinic killed five people, four of whom were civilians seeking treatment, and 45 others were wounded in the strike. Rights groups condemned it, as with many other Israeli strikes on civilian targets, as war crimes.
Israeli officials insisted at the time that Hamas was operating out of the clinic, and they continued to maintain that story today, irrespective of the major’s comments that the attack was primarily about boosting the morale of occupation forces with a revenge attack on a civilian target.
Sometimes a piece of the truth leaks out, despite best Israeli efforts.
When cover up and flat denial fails, then we get their Plan B. They ignore it, ride it out, hoping it will just go away in the news cycle. That was how they handled the commercial flight of a 727 they shot down with 113 civilians on board, and were quite pleased with themselves with that explanation of how they handled it, and that in just 3 days something else pushed it out of the news.
Plan C is to push excuses. Our government helps with that. It is after Plan B because it keeps the subject current rather than ignoring it so it goes away. This is the USS Liberty option.
So we'll see, can they just ignore this, or will they be forced to being a flow of lame excuses?
The MSM will overlook this 'transgression'. It may be reported as nothing more than a footnote in the press. Most, if not all, will not even mention it. To do any more than that, or even that much would be labeled 'anti-Semitic'.
Kill for fun, kill to feel good about yourself. That is pathetic israel.
USA does the same
And what's more pathetic is the American people ignore it.
No, they don't–they are just out shopping.
I can't hear your behind all these shopping bags.
Same thing.