https://thehill.com/policy/international/4251728-red-cross-warning-gaza-hospitals-morgues/amp/
This is a report from “The Hill” about the International Red Cross regarding the situation in Gaza.
A couple/few of things come to mind:
1. This is a war zone. It was not created by Israel, it was created by Hamas.
2. This is no longer a habitable region and people should evacuate. In the news conference it was made very clear people were to move to southern Gaza where there would be relief from the war.
3. The attack by Hamas was barbaric. There is no reasonable response to this except to destroy every munitions aspect of Hamas potential. That means many buildings including civilian buildings will be destroyed. Why? Because Hamas used civilian infrastructure as human shields.
4. Part of the reason this attack occurred was because Hamas was extremely covert and used their own people to hide their munitions potential. The only way Israel could ever know the readiness of this terrorist plan would be to have foot soldiers going from building to building to assess the militarized situation. That was impossible because it would not be tolerated and Israeli soldiers would be killed on a regular basis by Hamas.
All that said, Hamas had plans. They were well made plans. These plans were not defensive, they were offensive. Hamas was going to launch these plans at some point with the same death toll if not worse because this was a plan for genocide. When plans to kill focus on children as a target, including infants, that is genocide. If one recalls when September 11th occurred the Palestinians were one of the few peoples rejoicing at the death of Americans and that included Jewish people as well.
I do not have sympathy for any aspect of Hamas and their militarized infrastructure including a reported tunnels infrastructure where some are probably taking shelter.
The Right Political Wing in the USA has an expression when they don’t approve of any aspect of life, “It has to be removed by the roots.” In this case that clearly illustrates the extent Israel has a task of monumental extreme. This is a situation that will not easily resolve. It will be years if not a lifetime of Israel’s military presence. It will eventually settle down and it will be the Palestinians that will have to establish peace.
Gaza will never be a homeland to the Palestinians. It never will again. I remind that Gaza was an expression during the time of Arial Sharon to establish peace between these two nations of people. Gaza will be retaken and dominated by Israel and no organized terrorist network will be tolerated ever again.
