Last week, the headlines practically wrote themselves: Israel strikes Gaza hospital, kills 20, including five journalists. Cue the outrage, the outrage about the outrage, and the carefully framed images of white coats and rubble. It was the media’s favourite clickbait cocktail—dead civilians, a hospital, and Israel to blame.
Let’s pause…
Because beneath those headlines is a rotting, open secret everyone pretends not to know: Hamas uses hospitals as military bases. They don’t just hide in them—they operate from them, interrogate in them, store weapons in them, and yes, hold hostages in them.
Exhibit A: Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis
This isn’t theoretical. This is documented. This week’s target? Nasser Hospital. A place that, if you’ve been paying attention, should’ve been stripped of its humanitarian credentials long ago. Why?
Because back in February 2024, the IDF entered Nasser Hospital and found exactly what anyone familiar with Hamas would expect: mortars, grenades, and over 100 Hamas operatives using the hospital as a safe haven.
Then there’s the testimony from hostages, like Xiaowen Aloni. She was abducted with her children on October 7th and later held in that very hospital. Not treated—imprisoned. Locked in rooms with others, waiting hours for permission to use the toilet, vomiting from illness, and fed mouldy food. In a hospital.
And if that doesn’t clinch it, we also have the Palestinian Authority admitting—yes, even they admitted—in October 2024 that Nasser was being used by Hamas for interrogations. Just months later, the hospital’s director of nursing reported being threatened by Islamic Jihad for trying to keep the facility focused on actual healthcare.
This isn’t an outlier. This is the model.
Article 19: The Clause Everyone Ignores
International law—yes, that thing the media pretends to respect—has something to say here. Article 19 of the Geneva Convention spells it out clearly: hospitals lose their protected status if used to commit acts harmful to the enemy.
That includes stockpiling weapons. That includes interrogations. That includes using it as a command centre. That includes holding hostages. All of which Hamas did.
So by every legal and moral metric, Nasser Hospital was no longer a hospital. It was a legitimate military target.
But What About the Journalists?
Ah yes, the five journalists reportedly killed. Let’s talk about them.
One of them, Mohammed Salama, wasn’t exactly a war correspondent. He was a participant in the October 7 massacre. A journalist, sure—if you count Kalashnikovs as microphones. Another, Mariam Abu Daqa, not only contributed to Associated Press, but also taught journalism courses for Hamas’s Ministry of Information. Cute title, right? Sounds Orwellian because it is.
Others killed in the strike had posted open praise for the October 7 massacre, calling it the greatest day of their generation. If someone calls themselves a journalist and a mujahid in the same breath, you have to ask: which job came with the better benefits?
And if you’re tempted to say, "But press! But freedom of expression!"—I’d like to invite you to find me one journalist in Gaza not working under Hamas surveillance, threat, or payroll. If your cameraman is reporting from a Hamas tunnel entrance and you think that’s journalism, you’re part of the problem.
Hamas Knows What It’s Doing
None of this is an accident. Hamas uses hospitals because it knows the media will go berserk if Israel responds.
It’s a win-win for them. If Israel holds back, Hamas gets a free command centre. If Israel strikes, they get a photo-op and a press conference at the UN. Dead civilians? Great. Dead journalists? Even better. Every pixel of blood is weaponised for the narrative.
That’s why Hamas turns maternity wards into munition dumps. That’s why they base sniper teams on hospital rooftops. That’s why they store their missiles under paediatric clinics. And that’s why they take people like Xiaowen and lock them in hospital rooms.
Because they know you’ll never ask questions.
Let’s Get Real
Israel isn’t targeting hospitals because it’s fun. It’s doing it because Hamas turned those hospitals into war rooms.
You might think this war is being fought between armies. It’s not. It’s being fought between one army and one death cult that dresses its foot soldiers in press vests and hides behind incubators.
So no, Israel didn’t just bomb a hospital. Israel bombed a Hamas military installation that happened to keep its grenades next to gurneys.
And the blood of the innocent? It’s on Hamas.
Not because we say so. But because they planned it this way.
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