New Data Confirms Old Data: Blaming Israel For Gaza's Medical Collapse Is A Vicious Lie
Hamas shut down Gaza's generators, rejected fuel shipments, shot at fuel trucks, refused to collect millions of liters from what Palestinians admitted were "full storage tanks on the Gaza side", and murdered Israelis who still tried to provide them with energy. Throughout this insanity Israel supplied extra electricity to Gaza even though, according to the UN, "it was not obliged to". Gaza's energy crisis? Israel's fault.
The food crisis? After taking over Gaza, Hamas started randomly rejecting Israeli food aid. But even the BBC admitted that Israel still supplied more than enough aid to ensure that "no one starves" in Gaza. So Hamas took to specifically blocking Israeli fruits and vegetables. A few months later, the UN followed the BBC and admitted that Gazans do get more than enough food - but they still condemned Israel for not supplying enough fruits and vegetables. Really.
The medical crisis? Hamas shut down Gaza's clinics, intentionally failed to request and often rejected medical supplies, siphoned hospital fuel for terrorism ops, sacked medical personnel, publicly abased dozens of doctors, and physically attacked several more. Which is to say nothing of how their genocidal terrorism regularly triggers conflicts that strain their medical system.
And the solution to Gaza's medical collapse - in addition to blaming Israel - is naturally to demonize Israel for not letting Gazans get medical care in Israel. Unsurprisingly, that is (a) bullshit and (b) would be justified even if it wasn't bullshit:
For several years, the Rapporteur to the UN Commission on Human Rights (now the UN Human Rights Council) and human rights groups have criticized the Israeli government and health care system for denying access to Gazans seeking to receive permits for care in hospitals in Israel, the PA and Jordan. Yet... the number of patients receiving permits for referrals to hospitals in Israel - or the PA or Jordan - increased... in 2007, and continued to increase in the first six months of 2008. These trends occurred despite a decline in entry approval rates, mostly because of security reasons... Israel has provided ever increasing numbers of approvals of permits since the Hamas takeover of Gaza, despite increasing rocket attacks on Israel's civilian population, including mortar and terror attacks directed at the Erez crossing used by patients. At the same time, there have been at least 20 incidents where Palestinians used medical missions to attempt terror attacks.
Israel has kept Gaza border crossings open despite a decade's worth of attacks on the Israeli soldiers and civilians who work them. Hamas has done everything in their power to deprive Gaza of food, medicine, and fuel. But any humanitarian crisis in Gaza is still Israel's fault. Connection to reality - either about the extent of the crisis or the side at fault - is more or less unimportant. What matters is how much mindless anti-Israel viciousness can be packed into a single smear. So terror-enabling tools like Lauren Booth can scream "Gaza = Auschwitz", and then go shopping in overflowing Gaza supermarkets:
Vicious anti-Israel propaganda stretches all the way from the feverish swamp of swarming online progressives through every major British human rights organizations and all the way up to the UN. But at least it's not unjustified!
References:
* Palestinians Shut Down Generator To Create Gaza Humanitarian Crisis, UN Blames Israel [MR]
* Palestinians Intentionally Creating Humanitarian Crises In Gaza By Refusing To Accept Israeli Fuel [MR]
* Palestinians fire at trucks transporting fuel to Gaza [YNet]
* Fuel crisis halts Gaza food aid [BBC]
* Gaza fuel crisis forces UN to stop food aid deliveries
* Breaking: Two Israelis Murdered By Fatah, IJ Terrorists - While Supplying Fuel To Gaza (UPDATE: Israeli Towns Shelled For Hours Before And After Attack) [MR]
* UN: Gaza electricity supply in danger [JPost]
* Hamas Creates Humanitarian Crisis By Stealing Fuel For Terrorism, Preventing Israeli Gas Shipments, And Cutting Off Gaza Civilians. Again. (Plus: International Press, Human Rights Groups Blame Israel. Again) [MR]
* Would Palestinian Officials Intentionally Starve Palestinian Civilians Just So They Could Demonize Israel? We Think They Would... [MR]
* Analysis: Palestinian aid and politics [BBC]
* Hamas Blocks Israeli Food Shipments, Intentionally Starves Gaza Civilians To Create A Humanitarian Disaster - Again! [MR]
* UN: Gazans Have More Than Enough Food, But Lack Of Fruits And Vegetables Is A Humanitarian Crisis [MR]
* Hamas Intentionally Creating Humanitarian Disaster In Gaza - Now They're Shutting Down The Few Medical Clinics That Are Still Working [MR]
* IDF Colonel: Hamas Creating Humanitarian Crisis. No Kidding. [MR]
* 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 [MR]
* Hamas Intentionally Creating Humanitarian Crises In Gaza By Stealing Fuel From Hospitals For Their "Operations" Against Israel [MR]
* Tensions rise as Gaza doctors strike against Hamas sackings [AFP]
* Hamas humiliating doctors [Elder]
* Hamas militia continue to terrorize the doctors in Gaza [PalPress]
* Gaza hospitals on verge of collapse [YNet]
* Palestinians Intentionally Create Humanitarian Crisis, Red Cross and Reuters Parrot Their Claims [MR]
* Israeli Approvals for Medical Entry in the Shadow of Terror Attacks at the Erez Crossing [JCPA]
* Main terrorist attacks carried out at Gaza Strip crossings [MFA]
* Terrorist Loving British Tool: Israel Running "Concentration Camp", Gaza Like Darfur [MR]
* Starving in Gaza? [Israel Matzav]
* Palestinian Arab lie #82,512 [Elder]
* Study: Gaza humanitarian situation worst since 1967 [Ha'aretz]
Previously:
* UN Ignores Palestinian Attacks Explicitly Designed To Target Israeli Schoolchildren
* Palestinians Reject Israeli Humanitarian Efforts - Easier to Demonize Israel That Way
* Hey Did You Hear About Massive Israeli Humanitarian Efforts in Gaza?
