BBC Lets Slip Truths About Hamas
The BBC’s anti-Israel animus, so apparent in the dispatches over many years of its reporters, including John Simpson, Jeremy Bowen, Orla Guerin, Lyse Doucet, and Yolande Knell, has naturally affected its coverage of the war in Gaza, where Hamas’ exaggerated claims as to the number of Gazan casualties, and its reports of “indiscriminate” bombing by the IDF when the IDF makes herculean efforts to war civilians away from places soon to be targeted, are uncritically accepted, while Hamas itself — after the pro forma expressions of sympathy to Israel for what the BBC cryptically calls “the assault on October 7 by Hamas” without ever going into detail about the atrocities, gets off lightly for its barbarism. The BBC has just now published an article about the situation in Gaza in which the complaints of ordinary Gazans about Hamas’ misrule, and about the terror group’s responsibility for causing their current woe, are not censored but duly reported.
More on the complaining voices of Gazans can be found here, which includes this: “More than 24,900 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its response to the 7 October Hamas attacks, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.”
These figures on casualties are “according to the Hamas-run health ministry.” But who knows, really, how many Gazans have been killed? We know that Hamas routinely inflates the number of those who have been killed. Remember the “massacre in Jenin,” where Hamas accused the IDF of killing “500 civilians”? It then turned out that not 500, but 52 Gazans had been killed, and at least 45 of them were terrorist operatives. Or remember how Hamas reported in October that “an Israeli airstrike had killed 500 people” at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza? It later turned out that instead of an Israeli airstrike, it was a rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad at Israel that had misfired, and fell, still in Gaza, in the parking lot of Al-Ahli Hospital, not on the hospital itself. Furthermore, American intelligence confirmed that not 500, but between 10 and 50 people, died from the PIJ rocket.
The BBC did not mention that Hamas itself seizes for its own operatives an outsize portion of the humanitarian aid — “food, drink, and medicine” — being shipped into the Strip every day. While ordinary Gazans are suffering from a lack of both food and medicine, the tens of thousands of Hamas combatants in their well-appointed tunnel hideouts, want for nothing.
The BBC also quotes “Mohammed al-Khaldi, a father of two children displaced from Gaza City,” saying: “I hold the Israeli occupation responsible for the massive destruction, but I do not absolve Hamas of responsibility for everything that happened.”
Al-Khaldi’s anger at Hamas is so great that he is willing to denounce the group to the BBC, daring even to provide his own name. In his despair, he no longer cares what the terror group might do to him. He “does not absolve Hamas of responsibility for everything that happened.” A sweeping denunciation. He adds: “The worst thing that could happen is that we return to the previous situation, to a war every two or three years.”
Al-Khaldi clearly does not want a return to the misrule of Hamas, with the colossal theft of aid money by its three senior leaders, who between them have stolen eleven billion dollars, and its misallocation of resources, in choosing to build 300 miles of massive underground tunnels, and in its placing of its weapons, command and control centers, rocket launchers, and hideouts for its operatives both within and among civilian buildings, in a deliberate attempt to use Gazans as human shields. Al-Khaldi doesn’t want these wars with Israel every few years, wars that everyone in Gaza knows are always started by Hamas, when it launches barrages of rockets into towns in southern Israel. He is clearly calling for Hamas to change its violent ways, instead of starting a conflict with Israel “every two or three years,” because in the end the main sufferers from the violence prompted by those rocket launches are ordinary Gazans like himself.
Al-Khaldi knows that much of the humanitarian aid has been taken by Hamas before any of it reaches the distribution centers where people such as Khaldi have access. Then there is the general lawlessness, where Gazans besiege the aid trucks, and make off with as much food, water, and medicine as they can manage to carry; nobody stops them. Anarchy is loosed upon Gaza.
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