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Hamas Intentionally Creating Humanitarian Disaster In Gaza - Now They're Shutting Down The Few Medical Clinics That Are Still Working

Pop quiz: what does Hamas hate more than "having their own people die slow, painful deaths"? If you answered "doctors", you're the big winner. Except in a particularly sad and tragic way:

The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip ordered the shutdown Monday of private clinics run by doctors loyal to the West Bank-based Fatah government, a new blow to a medical system already crippled by the Palestinian power struggle. Most doctors at Gaza's public hospitals are paid by Fatah and loyal to its West Bank administration. They cut their daytime hospital schedule to three hours a day this month on Fatah's orders to protest Hamas' arrest of a prominent Fatah-linked physician... A physician who identified himself only as Dr. Nabil, for fear of Hamas retribution, said doctors would resist the shutdown order. "We will not allow them to close the clinics down," he said... "Hamas is not interested in the quality of medical service," Fatah Information Minister Riad al-Malki said in the West Bank.

Here is where we'd predict that Israel is going to get blamed by the UN, Red Cross, and global media for the soon-to-be-declared "Gaza health care crises". But we're going to try to avoid that: it's the obvious prediction, it's obviously going to come true, and then we'll have to hunt down this post for a "we told you so" follow-up. And those are both time consuming and depressing.

Then again, the new tags system makes things a little easier. One click on "intentional-humanitarian-crisis" - boom, instant crowing. Immediately afterwards: anger, sorrow, and vodka as the natural reaction to how blatantly Hamas can civilians and how predictably Israel gets blamed.

PS - Ibrahim Barzak (not our favorite person) got through an entire article without blaming Israel for something that's obviously not Israel's fault. Golf clap.

References:
* Hamas Shuts Fatah-Linked Gaza Clinics [AP]
* So This Is What Hamas Means By "Respecting Past Agreements" (Bonus: AP's Ibrahim Barzak Whitewashing Palestinian Terrorism Again?) [MR]

Previously:
* UN And "Gaza Businessmen" Agree: It's Israel's Fault That Hamas Has Intentionally Created A Humanitarian Disaster In the Gaza Strip By Blocking Food and Medical Shipments
* AP: Yup, Humanitarian Crisis Intentionally Caused By Hamas Is Still Israel's Fault
* Hamas Blocks Israeli Food Shipments, Intentionally Starves Gaza Civilians To Create A Humanitarian Disaster - Again!

Cross-posted to:
* Israpundit

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