All statistics emerging from the Hamas Ministry of Health are propaganda; that should be obvious. Now it emerges that Hamas’ failed rocket launches, which are quite and often have catastrophic results, have killed many Palestinians, yet Hamas attributes all of the deaths to Israel. Business Standard reported that since October, “550 failed rocket launches and misfires” were detected within two weeks alone. Also, a “misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket devastated the Al Ahli Hospital” in that same time frame. Nonetheless, the United Nations et al continue to exonerate Hamas, while Israel is ganged up on and even betrayed by its ally, the US.
“Hamas document reveals it hides casualties, blames failed rocket launches on Israel – IDF,” by Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, March 31, 2024:
The IDF spokesperson in Arabic exposed close cooperation between terror groups in concealing information and choosing launch areas far from houses of Hamas leadership, not Gazan citizens.
Avichai Adraee, the IDF spokesperson in Arabic, revealed on Saturday an official Hamas document recovered by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, which openly refers to Gazan casualties as a result of failed rocket launches, hiding this information from their constituency and blaming the deaths on Israel instead.
The revealed documents date back to 2020 and Operation Breaking Dawn (2022), and they were issued by Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades and signed by high-ranking members of the militia. The findings showcase Hamas attempting to persuade members of other militias in the Gaza Strip, namely the al-Quds Brigades belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), to take responsibility for the disastrous outcomes of failed rocket launches (referred to euphemistically as ‘local rockets’). The PIJ responded by requesting to conceal these failed launches and their repercussions to “support the image of the resistance.”
Another document showed a recommendation by Hamas to deny PIJ launching rockets specifically in the vicinity of houses belonging to the Hamas leadership fearing repetition of such events, yet no mention of preventing firing rockets near other Gazan residents’ houses was mentioned.
Lastly, Hamas reports were exposed featuring names of Gazan casualties as a result of failed launches, which were then recycled by Hamas in their outward reports of casualties, alleging they stemmed from Israeli airstrikes. In other words, Hamas counted casualties from PIJ failed rockets as casualties from Israeli attacks, proving yet again the lack of accuracy of their propaganda reporting…..
Ray Jarman says
One could be sarcastic by saying that if Israel did not exist, Gazan civilians could not have been killed by Hamas and other terrorist rockets. I am sure that the UN will use this argument before Hamas is crushed by Israel. I’m surprised that Pakistan and Iran don’t blame Israel when the two regimes shoot rockets and mortars at each other.
OLD GUY says
Hamas can do no wrong, they are the best of people. It has to be someone else’s fault, sounds just like our politicians. LiAR _ LIAR