The Deaths

The accusation against the IDF that it carried out a “massacre” of 350 Palestinians at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis is another example of fake news by the forces of Hamas and their supporters in Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based media outlet. Not only does the IDF deny any such incident, but it is well known that the Gazans, where there is very limited space, have routinely buried their dead from the hospitals in the grounds of the hospitals. This was true in the Shifa hospital in Gaza City and it is also true in the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis where 35 were buried. So the bodies being displayed by Hamas are those that have been buried for some time in that graveyard and dug up. Another example of anti-Israel propaganda that the media likes to report.

Some 1,200 Israelis were massacred by Hamas and their civilian supporters in Israel on Oct 7. Of these some 340 were IDF soldiers, either in uniform or not. Another 260 IDF soldiers have been killed in the fighting in Gaza and some on the northern border in fighting with Hezbollah for a total of over 600. The IDF estimates that 13,000 Hamas terrorists have been killed out of the estimated 30,000 fighters it supposedly had before the war. Since Hamas does not give a figure for its combatants killed, if we subtract this figure from the official Hamas figure of a total of 33,000 “civilians” killed, this leaves the actual figure of civilians killed close to 20,000, the lowest civilian to fighter ratio in any modern war (the US in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, killed many, many more civilians, an estimated total of ca. 4 million). These statistics refute any claim of “genocide” on the part of the IDF. If they really wanted to carry out genocide why wouldn’t they attack the 1.5 million defenseless civilians in camps in southern Gaza?

A lot has been said about the Palestine Authority (PA) taking over Gaza after this war. But the PA is not only corrupt and incompetent, it also uses terrorism against Israel. The Biden Administration talks of a “revitalized” PA, but so far there is no sign of such a thing, only a shuffle of the Government by the 87 year old dictator Mahmud Abbas. He has to go, and all his cronies, before the PA could be considered even minimally responsible enough to govern Gaza, let alone the PA itself.