athos77

I don't think Hamas has an official uniform. I'll note that, when Hamas wore regular camo,

Israel's i24 News and The Sun in the U.K. claimed that “the terrorists wore our uniforms” and “sick Hamas terrorists used IDF uniform disguise.” source

And now that they have someone in Hamas not wearing camo (I don't know, does Gaza even have a working laundry at this point), both the Israeli media and The Sun immediately switch to

Hamas using the civilian population as human shields. Dressed in jeans and a casual grey shirt to look like a civilian

So basically they're saying it doesn't matter how Hamas dresses, whatever they wear is an evil deceitful attempt to mislead the pure upstanding Israelis.

Ooh, Rupert Murdoch trash again! Media bias / fact check for The Sun:

Overall, we rate The Sun Right Biased based on story selection and political affiliation that favors the right. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to overly sensationalized headlines and numerous failed fact checks.

However, they also include this lovely comment in their analysis section:

In review, The Sun is a classic trashy tabloid that features celebrity gossip, current events, and right-leaning news stories. There is significant use of sensational loaded headlines [...]. The paper generally publishes sensationalized, misleading stories with a right-wing bias. Further, a Reuters institute survey found that 13% of respondents trust their news coverage and 64% do not, ranking them last in trust of the major UK news providers.

[Once we have got] rid Gaza of Hamas terrorists and freed our hostages, [...] Gaza can be demilitarized and deradicalized

Interesting. I wonder what their criteria are for defining someone as a "Hamas terrorist", what they mean by "demilitarized", and how they plan to "deradicalize" the Palestinians.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that Florida has like 21 million people in it - more if you count snowbirds (which you know they'll take advantage of 'living' in Florida to get cheap drugs). And Canada has like 38 million people. Tossing an extra 21 million people onto Canada's stuff supply is absolutely going to wreck their system.

For a moment I thought it was one of those motion-activated sinks, and I couldn't figure out how he got settled in there without setting it off.

My issue is that on the (?second) day of the war, a group of Western reporters were presented with "evidence" of the planning that had gone into the attack, and I found the "evidence" to be laughably bad - the evidence itself, the supposed circumstances it was found under, the condition of the evidence - all were bad. And if you present such incredibly poor "evidence" at one point, I'm going to automatically be much more suspicious of any other "evidence" you present later.

Here, let me fix that for you:

The Israeli Army, after ten weeks in which they have repeatedly and intentionally hit non-military, civilian, neutral observer, refugee and journalist targets; in which they have deliberately and indiscriminately murdered thousands of noncombatants during acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide, during which they've also deliberately murdered their own unarmed and half-naked citizens; bombing hospitals, refugee camps, and the supposed "safe evacuation corridors" they explicitly told the civilian population to use; and after repeatedly lying about and defending their attacks; an onslaught which has been met with almost universal condemnation from the community of nations; has finally admitted, after ten weeks of indiscriminate slaughter, that maybe, just maybe two of their attacks might've been misjudged - Oops.

Ruby is gorgeous!

99% of UNRWA personnel are recruited from local personnel. Is there any proof that this guy was actually still working for UNRWA at the time?

I don't doubt there are Hamas tunnels, either. That said, Israel has presented no proof that the tunnels at the hospital actually were Hamas tunnels. They actively prevented journalists from entering the tunnels and, afaik, there was only one video from 'inside' the tunnel that contained no proof that it was actually the hospital tunnel.

I find it hard to give Israel the benefit of the doubt on their claims after they claimed that an almost pristine document had been found on the body of a Hamas fighter deep in the initial attack.

It’s not like this evidence is likely to be sourced any other way.

Well, Israel could start by allowing independent journalists to actually cover the war, instead of going out of their way to prevent them from covering the war - as well as murdering at least 68 journalists and media workers during their 73-day-old war.

Counterpoints:

We know that tunnels have been found in Gazan hospital complexes. There has been no credible evidence that these were Hamas tunnels. Most hospitals I've worked at have had tunnels or underground hallways - hell, my high school had tunnels. The existence of "a tunnel entrance" that the Israelis refuse to let independent journalists into proves nothing.

We know by video evidence that injured hostages were taken to hospitals. Seems like install wins either way: either Hamas brings in prisoners for treatment and then suddenly the entire hospital is a Hamas compound and everyone there is affiliated with Hamas; or they don't bring in prisoners for treatment and they're barbarians who don't understand the way that 'civilized' people conduct war. [Hey, how come Israel gets to kidnap Palestinians off the street and call them prisoners, but when Hamas does it, suddenly they're hostages?]

I have seen no hostage testimony that doctors kept hostages jailed. I have read that hostages were unable to leave after getting treatment, but that doesn't mean it was the doctors preventing them leaving.

Why are my comments important? Because Israel knows it's losing public support for it's war. Trying to demonize both the UN and the WHO [both of whom are targets of US conservatives] attempts to keep US conservatives strongly aligned with Israeli government interests.