Hamas continues to use civilian dress and infrastructure to cover up its operations. Yet, Israel gets blamed for any and all danger to civilians in Gaza thanks to the moral depravity of left-wing governments, media, and activists.
On Tuesday, Israel struck a vehicle and a group of men who were portraying themselves as members of World Central Kitchen, an aid group run by liberal chef José Andrés. Israel confirmed in real time with WCK that the vehicle was not affiliated with the aid group, and WCK condemned those posing as aid workers because it “endangers civilians and aid workers.”
This is what Hamas and Palestinian terrorists do. When they aren’t dressing up as aid workers, they are infiltrating aid organizations such as the UNRWA or WCK. Or they’re using ambulances to transport their terrorist troops, which Israel provided evidence of in the month after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. If it isn’t an ambulance, then they are using hospitals to house terrorists, hostages, weapons, or underground tunnel networks. If it’s not hospitals, schools are used as weapons depots or command bases. If it’s not schools, it’s homes and other civilian buildings.
Hamas and other Palestinians do this on purpose for three reasons. The first is to force Israel to at least take more time in determining whether the schools, ambulances, or “aid workers” are legitimate military targets. The second is, in the event Israel does correctly and legitimately strike one of these targets, Hamas can send out press releases to global left-wing media about how evil Israel bombed a school without mentioning that it was being used as a weapons storage for terrorists. The third is to try to secure an even bigger propaganda win if Israel accidentally strikes legitimate civilian infrastructure, which happened early last year when an Israeli strike killed real WCK aid workers. (Israel fired two military officers over that incident).
THE DEPRAVED SUCCESS OF HAMAS PROPAGANDA
In fact, the only time Hamas dons its military uniforms is when it parades dead Israeli babies that it murdered during hostage exchanges put on by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
At all other times, Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists deliberately portray themselves as civilians and their facilities as civilian facilities. Those terrorists want to drive up civilian casualties. They are doing everything in their power to do that in an effort to delegitimize any military response by Israel to their terrorism, even as Israel goes out of its way to try to avoid civilian casualties. That is why Hamas bears responsibility for civilian deaths in Gaza.