Speechless. They are turning Gaza into Grozny, I’m sure I said they won’t do that, but now I fear the worst is to come.
You wonder when/how/if they are going to bomb the Shifa'a hospital.
If they are hell-bent on killing every Hamas member to the last of them (not possible, but let's say 80-90% of them that'll be enough for Hamas to surrender),
then this hospital will be a major site of action.
That's where they're at, that's where they have the shit tonnes of gasoline tanks for the venting of the tunnels;
IDF can't go into the tunnels beneath the hospital and expect things to run smoothly.
That's probably where the tunnels are the most complicated, sophisticated, booby-trapped...
and that's probably where the majority of the hostages are at.
IDF will probably not be able to work surgically around and beneath the hospital,
so I wonder what course of action they will choose.
They must know that the moment they touch this hospital,
the outcry from the Western world will be such that will probably bring the war to a halt.
There are war crimes and then there are war crimes [how fecked up is that?]
This, in turn, would mean that many Hamas fighters- thousands, if I had to guess- will survive this war,
and so the Israeli public will not get their (practically impossible IMO) wish of eradicating Hamas off the planet.
And people will never agree to come back to live in the area surrounding Gaza (Ottef Azza in Hebrew, [m translating it to other readers, I know you speak the language] the places where the massacre took place on Oct 7th).
So there's a set of circumstances whereby it's almost impossible that Shifa'a will stay untouched.
I wonder how it's going to unfold.
Humanity, either way, is not part of the considerations of those in charge. This should go without saying at this point.
The very fact that I had to wonder for a couple of seconds,
whether the lives of genuinely sick people in a hospital matter more/less to me than the chance to kill as many Hamas members as possible,
is quite chilling.
