Melanie Phillips
Substack, May 28, 2024
“The IDF says it now suspects that ammunition, weapons, or some other inflammatory material was stored in the area of the strike, causing a secondary blast and the fire that spread to the civilian tents.”
Once again, Israel has been accused of heinous and inhuman behaviour — a charge that has incited yet further global hysteria and exterminatory hatred against the Jewish state — which turns out to be a vicious falsehood.
On Sunday, Israel’s air force carried out a strike in Rafah targeting two senior Hamas commanders whom it had tracked by aerial surveillance to a compound in the Tal as Sultan area.
Following this strike, a terrible fire broke out in a number of refugee tents where Gazans displaced by the war were burned alive. The Hamas-run health ministry says 45 civilians were killed here and many more injured.
This was clearly an appalling and horrifying thing to have taken place. But what happened next transformed a deeply regrettable tragedy of warfare into a malevolent blood libel.
The western media, politicians and “humanitarian” groups parroted the Hamas claim that the Israelis had wilfully targeted a refugee camp that Israel itself had designated as a protected humanitarian area. The BBC chose to report that the Irish deputy prime minister, Micheál Martin, had condemned an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced Palestinians, describing it as “barbaric”. … [To read the full article, click here]