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Medical personnel who claim to have spent some time as volunteers in Gaza, have put out a letter claiming that the death toll in Gaza is “greater than 118,908.” More about its contents can be found here: “‘60,000 Dead From Starvation’: American Doctors Quietly Retract Grotesque Gaza Libel,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, HonestReporting, October 7, 2024:
It’s the attached appendix, however, that truly reveals the absurdity of these missives. It’s a mishmash of outdated reports from groups like Save the Children and Human Rights Watch, littered with contradictory statistics and cherry-picked quotes from U.S. politicians.
In the latest letter, we’re told at least 118,000 people have died in Gaza since October 7—yet this is the exact same figure given in the previous letter months ago. And then they admitted it was “impossible to accurately estimate how many Palestinians in Gaza have died since October 7.”
Make it make sense.
Meanwhile, one of the signatories, Ali Elaydi, has been making the rounds in the media this week, most recently in an interview with ABC News, where he falsely claimed that Israel is restricting medical supplies from entering Gaza.
Elaydi is lying, but neither at ABC News nor at any of the other media outlets where he has appeared has anyone dared to contradict him or, indeed, to ask him what is the evidence for his claim that Israel restricts medical supplies.
In reality, Israel has explicitly stated that it places no such restrictions on medical aid. The allegation, which originated at the UN, appears to be an attempt to deflect from the UN’s own failures in effectively distributing aid throughout the Strip.
The problem with aid in Gaza is not that it hasn’t been arriving in sufficient amounts, but that once those trucks laded with humanitarian aid — food and medicine — are inside Gaza, those trucks are immediately beset by armed members of Hamas who help themselves to large amounts of that aid before it can be evenly distributed to those who need it the most. They not only steal aid for their own extended families, but also to sell some of it to other Gazans. The amount of aid entering Gaza is sufficient, but it is the distribution of such aid that has become so chaotic and unfair due to Hamas’ grand theft.
And then there’s the irony: shortly after urging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to “withhold military, economic, and diplomatic support from the State of Israel…until good faith negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians lead to a permanent resolution of the conflict,” the signees admit they don’t “claim to have all the answers” because, well, they’re “simply physicians and nurses.”…
But of course that’s exactly what these signees are offering — “all the answers” to the conflict. And their answer is for the US to “withhold military, economic, and diplomatic support” from the state of Israel until it effectively surrenders, declares a ceasefire in Gaza that will allow Hamas combatants to regroup, and then to proclaim to the world that the terror group is still standing despite “all that the Zionist entity” threw at it.
How many antisemites, or members of The Squad, or the simply gullible, will now start posting online — or quoting approvingly from — the letter from these 99 medical personnel, with their crazed claim of 118,000 deaths in Gaza? Who will point out that this figure is almost three times the figure that Hamas itself — and Hamas is well-versed in inflating its own figures — has put out? Who will put out for public consumption the actual number of civilian deaths in Gaza, which amount to 14,400 once one has deducted from Hamas’ own total of 42,000 the 18,000 combatants that, according to the IDF, have been killed, and the 9600 Gazans who have died from natural causes?
CNN/NYT’s will always be the Leftists Propaganda they are
All death, destruction and suffering in Gaza and Lebanon is totally and completely the fault of the Palestinians All of it.
They tell us every day that they love death and will not stop killing Jews until all Jews in Israel and in the world are dead. Why don’t we believe them?
The Palestinians could end this war and all death and suffering today.
All they have to do is:
1. Release all hostages.
2. Stop killing Jews.
3. Stop trying to destroy Israel.
Apparently, this is to much for them to even contemplate.
The Palestinians have forgotten the first rules of deciding to start a war:
1.You might lose.
2. You don’t get to complain about the way the people you want to slaughter defend themselves.
Even if those people are Jews.
Nicely phrased, sir!
Well said sir. Upvoted!
The basic excuse for Netanyahu’s GAZA GENOCIDE is the 7 Oct. Massacre
WHICH HE COULD HAVE PREVENTED – AS HE KNEW ABOUT IT BEFORE!
SO, IT IS ONLY AN EXCUSE! (to get Netanyahu out of his CORRUPTION trials!)
That neighbours and relatives come to help the murdered GAZA AND WEST BANK PEOPLE is only human.
ALL THIS IS STILL BASED ON A MIS-PERCEPTION OF A BAD PAST IN THE LAST CENTURY
WHICH LED TO BIG LAND THEFT, MASS KILLING AND EXPULSION OF ARABS FROM THEIR HOMES.
But let us be JUST AND FAIR:
Suffering evil DOES NOT give a “Right” TO DO AS MUCH EVIL!
And I’m afraid: Even nice friends can err into very evil paths.
Much worse if those friends have long been proud of
“LETTING NO MAN, NO WOMAN, NO CHILD LIVE!”
WHICH ISRAEL ITSELF DESCRIBES AS THE WAY IT TOOK THAT LAND!
Such actions cannot create any “Rights” – for land or anything
Any “Right” to the land in question could only have come from:
IMMIGRANT ABRAHAM PURCHASING IT LAWFULLY
-BUT INSTEAD, JACOB’S SONS MURDERED THE PEOPLE THERE!
And, after leaving for Egypt, they came back: KILLING AGAIN:
WORSE, SEE ABOVE:
“NO MAN, NO WOMAN, NO CHILD DID WE LET LIVE!”
– and, in 1948, AGAIN, MASSES WERE KILLED, OTHERS EXPELLED!
With this history of SERIAL BRUTAL “ACQUISITION” – LAND GRABBING!
NONE OF THESE EVENTS GIVES A LAWFUL RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP!
IT MORE REMINDS OF THE “CLAIM” OF “VOLK OHNE LAND”
(by Hitler) and is as untrue as that one.
TAKING LAND BY KILLING ITS PEOPLE IS GENOCIDE!
THE SAME AS HOLOCAUST!
So, where is Hitler different from Joshue, Ben Gurion, Netanyahu?
– not to mention King Herod who did not kill as many children as the latter.
CURSING HITLER IS, IN THAT CASE, LIKE SPITTING AT THE MIRROR –
AND CLAIMING GOD AS INSTIGATOR OF THIS IS BLASPHEMY!
Another lie spreader
The history prior to Abraham was that the land had belonged to Semites, being part of Shem’s allotment in the Book of Jubilees, and then the Hittites invaded it. So the Canaanites of Hittite descent (Genesis 10:15; 12:6; 23:3) who were displaced by Joshua were not the rightful owners of the land, and God intervened to restore it to the people to whom it really belonged.