This week, a new U.S. intelligence assessment confirmed that the al-Shifa hospital complex in Gaza City was exploited by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to hold Israeli hostages captive, hide terrorists, and direct attacks against Israel.
The largest hospital in Gaza was cynically and deliberately used by Hamas as a weapon of its terrorism. For years, countless Palestinian patients were used by the terrorists as human shields to protect Hamas and its tunnel network.
No more. The IDF operation in Gaza further exposed what Hamas was doing in the hospital and has cleared the facility of Hamas operatives.
Today, the IDF published the video below of it destroying the tunnel route that ran beneath Shifa Hospital, taking special care to blow up the tunnel while ensuring the hospital could still function. It was yet another step the Israelis took to facilitate humanitarian care to innocent Palestinians.
Kirby defends Israel
National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby responded unequivocally to questions about yesterday’s drone strike that killed Hamas deputy Saleh al-Arouri and six other Hamas operatives outside of Beirut, saying that "Israel has the right to eliminate any threat to its security and its people."
Hamas teaches children to be terrorists
The IDF published footage today of a Hamas training facility where the terrorists built a mock terror tunnel to train children in Gaza. Israeli troops also uncovered a cache of more weapons inside a school, along with colorful posters used to teach kids how to identify grenades, bullets, and bombs.
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"Israel is facing things that nobody’s faced."
Yesterday, one of the nation’s leading urban warfare experts joined MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell to discuss the uniquely challenging environment facing the IDF in Gaza as compared to previous American battles.
"Israel is facing things no military has faced, especially this underground world that is more important than the surface," said John Spencer, the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point’s Modern War Institute.
Conditioning aid undermines Israel and rewards Hamas
When Congress returns next week, we will mobilize our full membership across the country – along with partner organizations in the broader pro-Israel community – to surge calls into Capitol Hill urging passage of the $14.3 billion emergency aid package.
This funding is vital to ensuring Israel has the resources it needs to win this war. But Senator Bernie Sanders is already pushing an anti-Israel resolution – which could be considered as soon as Monday – to add political conditions on the aid.
Sanders is playing into Hamas' sick game while spreading reckless lies about how Israel is fighting this war. Read our response to Sanders here.
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