The White House on Wednesday said it did not “OK” Israel’s military raid of al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza in an attempt to deflect responsibility for the attack.
Just hours before Israel launched the raid, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby backed Israel’s claim that Hamas had a command center under the hospital without providing any evidence.
Hamas released a statement that said President Biden was “fully responsible” for the Israeli raid on the hospital, pointing to the intelligence claim. “The White House and the Pentagon’s adoption of the false narrative, claiming that the resistance is using al-Shifa medical complex for military purposes, was a green light for the occupation to commit more massacres against civilians,” Hamas said.
Despite the unconditional military support for Israel’s war, which includes near-daily weapons shipments, Kirby denied that the US was responsible for the raid.
“My delivery of some downgraded information yesterday, that, the timing of that really came after work by the intelligence community to prepare that information for downgrade. It has nothing to do with any operational timing or any decision-making by the Israeli Defense Forces,” Kirby said.
“We did not give an OK to the military operations around the hospital in similar fashion to the fact that we didn’t, you know, we don’t give OKs to their other tactical operations. These are Israeli military operations that they plan and they execute on, you know, in accordance with their own established procedures that the United States is not, was not involved in,” he added.
Kirby claimed that the hospital attack was “not a focus” of a call President Biden held with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night. He again backed the Israeli narrative about the hospital, saying the US was “comfortable with our own intelligence assessment about the degree to which Hamas was and is using Al Shifa Hospital as a commanding control node, as a storage facility underneath.”
There is a significant underground basement underneath al-Shifa that was actually built by Israel as part of an expansion project in the 1980s when it ruled the Gaza Strip. Israeli media reports have previously claimed that Hamas connected its tunnels to the bunker.
So far, Israel has failed to produce evidence to back its claim that Hamas has a command center under the hospital. The Israeli military presented a photo of weapons it claimed to have found at the hospital, which showed only 10 rifles, a few magazines, and military vests, nothing indicating a significant command center. The IDF also published a video on X showing a spokesman walking through part of the hospital and showing guns and other equipment. The video was later deleted, and a new edited version was then posted.
Al-Shifa is still full of hundreds of patients who doctors are warning will continue to die due to the lack of power and other desperately needed resources. Among the patients are dozens of newborn and premature babies who were removed from incubators when the power went out over the weekend. At least three of the babies have died.
USA??? ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION HERE?
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The US is officially complicit.
And has been.
The US is officially complicit.
Let’s learn some new terminology USA: war crimes, crimes against humanity………………………………………………………………………………..
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United Nations, where are you?
They voted against Israel’s continued killing today.
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Someone raises and lowers flag to pomp and ceremony. Your timeline is right on. The UN is as useless as the League of Nations was. No powers, nothing just blah, blah,blah.
It doesn’t help any that the US, the supposed greatest country in the world ever, also totally ignores them.
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The UN General Assembly, several GA committees and multiple UN agencies routinely take principled stands on the question of Palestine and call out Israeli misbehavior:
https://www.un.org/unispal/
The problem is that only the Security Council has real authority at the UN and the five permanent members of the UNSC (China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States — the victorious Allies of WWII) have veto power over SC resolutions. In the cases of the proxy war in Ukraine and the New Nakba in Gaza, the US and its minions block efforts to stop the horror shows.
Is there a count of how many times the US has vetoed good ideas that ran afoul of there support for Israel thev51st state.
Hmm . . . I’m sure there is. Checking . . .
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/19/a-history-of-the-us-blocking-un-resolutions-against-israel
Is there a count of how many times the UN ignored and blew off complains about terrorist acts against Israel.
UN SC alproved finally humsnitarian “pause” and corridors to be established to deliver aid.
I doubt it will help much with Israel drollimg leaflets for Gazans to leave SOUTH. Where are they supposed to go? This is the ploy to refuse any corridors into Gaza.
Out to lunch since 1945 I believe
Can’t care less, just for a change perhaps ..
Most of this “article”:
“Israel has failed to produce evidence to back its claim that Hamas has a command center under the hospital.”
“ …nothing indicating a significant command center.”
Also this “article”:
“There is a significant underground basement underneath al-Shifa… “.
“The Israeli military presented a photo of weapons… found at the hospital, which showed… 10 rifles, a few magazines, and military vests”.
At a certain point this type of “analysis” becomes objectively false and disproven. What else would the rifles and their respective rounds have been used for, medical procedures? These attempted assertions are false and misleading, and as such should be treated with the scorn and derision they deserve.
You have no proof. Israel has no proof. Just as the allegations during and after Cast Lead and Protective Edge. Zionists are vicious. I know where you are coming from. Your dorm in one of the universities, or a room full of students like you, hammering away on your keyboards in a giant center set up for propaganda. And then you throw out antisemitism to any criticism. The problem is, you Zionists are non-religious, using the Star of David as a prop. Just vicious settler colonists. You need to listen to the good Rabbi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIX368TtOJs
He’s more likely to be from Foggy Bottoms, where they mastered the science of using smoke and mirrors, hence the name.
you don’t want to see.
You don’t want to see, Jake.
You are filth supporting filth.
HAHAHA.Zionism gooood.
“…10 rifles, a few magazines, and military vests”
It is possible these were items on the person of casualties brought in to the Emergency Room, which were removed and set aside during treatment.
Do you believe there’s so much as a single hospital in Israel that doesn’t maintain a security-sized arsenal of that type? There are nearly that many firearms in my house, where only five people live.
Yup. There are many times that number on my square block in a liberal pocket of the Upper Midwest.
Oh NO! Not Minnesota nice.
Minnesota Nice is real. Really, it’s real. We’re really, really nice.
And some of us are armed, including some very nice liberals and progressives. (Also some actual leftists, but don’t tell anyone.)
yes, and in my liberal neighborhood in the north of los angeles as well. people don’t realize that all of those scary hells-angels types and latino gang-bangers are actually liberals.
When push comes to shove in the US I hope you get use them against the fascists and police storming your driveway.
Can you stop it with the absolutist “responses” you typically appear to attempt to be making. While perhaps there may be some hospitals that carry anti-missile or Iron Dome missile defense systems after the October 7th terrorist and genocidal attacks, this attempted position is irrelevant due to the fact that U.S. intelligence has already confirmed that there is a “node” at the hospital and that the terrorist and genocidal organization known as Hamas regularly “clusters” with personnel and equipment concentrations: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/politics/al-shifa-hospital-us-intelligence/index.html.
The only organization putting civilians in danger is and continues to remain the terrorist and genocidal organization known as Hamas, with the IDF continuing to take every reasonable precaution including noticeably offering evacuation routes and opportunities for patients and staff in an attempt to attempt to reduce if not eliminate civilian casualties throughout their moral and reasonable operations.
Yes, it is possible that the Israelis, scoundrels as they are, do have illegal weapons in hospitals, but that is no proof that Hamas did the same. There is no evidence, if there were, the IDF would have yelled it from the rooftops if there are any left.
The IDF is doing shit to reduce civilian casualties and if you have a brain you know that is true. They are executing the massacre on the Palestinians, including babies in incubators. Israeli Zionists are war criminals they are up to their necks in blood.
By not stepping in and telling the Zionist to stop the attack on the hospital, we ARE complicit. The deaths become out responsibility.
They bombed that hospital with munitions supplied by American tax payers.
You wouldn’t say that about all the hospitals and civilian targets that Russia has attacked in Ukraine.
Antiwar but not when Russia is the attacker, oh no, that’s different.
You guys are a bunch of hypocrites.
We definitely have the death penalty in Gaza.
Yes, Hamas Gazans slaughtered peaceful Israelis and should be given fair trials and if guilty-executed.
Hamas uses these facilities for purposes of war-understandable Israeli response.
They killed so many people at that hospital and no one will ever be held accountable.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-army-kills-elderly-taking-pr-photo-safe-corridor
Israel is so nice. If Israeli soldiers pretend to help you on camera, then fall on your knees and catch up on your prayers because you’re already dead.
John Kirby is FOS…!
He can’t help it. He needs to be part of the plot or plan which is not easy given his stupidity.
Didn’t the Zionists have a slick presentation on the rabbit warren of bunkers and tunnels under the hospital? When is the footage of that going to be released? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/642bcac638a895adad94d279820dcc4fcc73004c48a26487d11382fafa8edd26.jpg
It does not matter if they HAD evidence. It does not matter whether Hamas was in the basement or not. This is/was a hospital with hundreds of patients and thousands of civilians sheltering. Such a structure cannot be a target of bombing and destruction, even during a real war against a competent opponent army. That is indisputably a war crime.
Exactly.
No gray area, about it.
The satanic nature of that state is out for all to see. Satanists everywhere are rushing to its defence.
Ay-oh, oh-ay !
As a card-carrying member of The Satanic Temple (and an atheist, cool yer jets), I have to protest this blanket assertion that “Satanists” are the bad guys in any of this.
You’re paying for the Israel-Gaza Ghetto War. And you’re also going to be paying for all the refugees as a result of the Gaza Ghetto War.
and the arming of Ukraine
And the massacre of the Ukrainian people.
Turkey can take them.
I will be succinct. You are ignorant and pathetic and a pretty good reason for censorship. Opinions without good or reliable info are worthless especially if parroted by the MSM.
No Islamic country is going to cooperate with Israel in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
What a creative bunch of filthy,fucking liars that are employed in the MSM,Congress and then Masters of Mankind. If one emerges to tell the truth about American actions or foreign policy it is a quick road to prison. That has been demonstrated many times over the last 40 years.
“Yes I gave the man screaming for blood the gun, but I was not involved in the murder.”
They gave Netanyahu a blanc check that is not enough to CYA. They are war criminals they did know what they are doing is criminal. Bombing hospitals, schools, churches, and ambulances alone are war crimes.
By now they have yet to show any evidence of Hamas under the hospital. Much like all the WMDs in Iraq.
Israeli atrocities may be grotesque but are “… military operations that they plan and they execute on, you know, in accordance with their own established procedures that the United States is not, was not involved in,”
The National Security Council needs a more articulate bullshit artist.
Articulate is a bad thing, when blowing smoke to hide a crime.
Agreed. Also, no need for it when dealing with such intellectual midgets: Us, the US population.
You gave your okay by funding it and continuing to fund it and not calling for a ceasefire. You are guilty. I take no pity on your soul.
ED: What soul are you talking about? There is none in this government.
If there is one with a soul, it is one of stone.
Good fairy tale Kirby. Totally believable.
(required revelation: I also believe in the Easter Bunny and The Tooth Fairy).
If Hamas used this hospital as a terrorist base,which is what it seems-then Israel has right to deal with it.
How do you define “terrorist base” ? A single building, a neighborhood, an entire country ? Understanding, of course, that as a matter of convenience, a powerful entity can (and in past, has) define each of those as legitimate targets for their own purposes.
I’ve got some free time on my hands…. I think it is time to build our campaign against any further monies going to Israel…I’m going to start, by calling MY Senator and Congress folks….Hope the rest of you will join me…. NO MORE MONEY FOR WAR, NO MORE MONEY FOR ISRAEL………………………………………………………………………………….
https://www.house.gov/representatives
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm