The lies started days ago when early reports about an explosion at a hospital in Gaza were fueled by claims from Hamas that the blast was the result of an Israeli airstrike. The headlines were immediate and gruesome. Israel, or so the story goes from the Palestinian side, launched an air strike on a hospital resulting in the deaths of 500 people.
It only took a matter of hours for the story to circulate around the world causing chaos at some Israeli embassies and stoking global antisemitism.
Headlines like this flooded the arab world from places like Al Jazeera:
The key phrase there is, “Palestinian officials say,” which is where the lie went off the rails. The stories were written explicitly blaming Israel for bombing a hospital, the propaganda war at its finest.
For some inexplicable reason, media outlets around the world, including American organizations like the New York Times, took claims from Hamas and the Palestinian Health Ministry at face value and ran with it, but were forced to alter the headline as the lie was exposed.
This graphic of the New York Times story captures the shift as facts emerged:
The headline quietly morphed from unequivocally blaming Israel for a “strike” that “kills hundreds” to some kind of mysterious “blast” at a Gaza hospital.
The blast was no mystery and within hours the truth started to surface.
With almost the entire war zone under surveillance of some kind including live television cameras, satellite imagery, and communications monitoring, it didn’t take long for evidence to emerge suggesting Hamas itself was behind the hospital bombing, either intentionally or accidentally.
Even President Biden conveyed findings during his meeting with Netanyahu from U.S. intelligence agencies that the hospital strike was the result of a Hamas rocket, not an Israeli missile:
Biden: 'Israel did not bomb the hospital, it was done by them'.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad are the enemy of the Palestinian people. #Israel #Gaza pic.twitter.com/3d8PUmsqBd
— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 18, 2023
Can he be less forceful? It was “done by the other team,” he says it like he’s watching a football game, but Biden’s weak-kneed performance is for another story.
Ironically, Al Jazeera had cameras rolling at the time and accidentally caught the entire incident on video:
Check your own footage before you accuse Israel.
18:59 – A rocket aimed at Israel misfired and exploded.
18:59 – A hospital was hit in Gaza.You had one job. https://t.co/iCgYOkaE84 pic.twitter.com/Ag2mKCBb6M
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 18, 2023
Further evidence of intercepted communications between Hamas militants found confusion and a straight-up admission of guilt:
It’s well-known that Hamas uses innocents as human shields and carries out operations from hospitals, schools, and places of worship as a way to hide. The actions are despicable but are part and parcel of the barbarian nature of radical Islamic terrorists and their blatant disregard for any form of human life, including their own.
Fast-forward several hours with widely available evidence mounting that disputes the Hamas narrative, and we still had a sitting U.S. Congresswoman on Wednesday repeating the lie and whipping up anti-Jewish hatred:
Despite it being proven wrong that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza, Rep. @RashidaTlaib breaks down in tears at a pro-Hamas rally outside the Capitol repeating the claim Israel bombed a hospital.
pic.twitter.com/7POVh8uaBv— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 18, 2023
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is the epitome of a useful idiot for Hamas. She’s openly antisemitic giving no concern or care for the terror attack launched against Israel on Oct. 7 in which over one thousand innocent civilians were killed, some slaughtered at an outdoor music festival. Families were brutally murdered in their homes, women raped and dragged off as hostages, and children slain in their beds. The attack is being compared to the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States, but the scale is much larger in Israel with a population of just over 9 million.
After Tlaib whipped up her crowd of Hamas sympathizers, the group launched an insurrection at the Cannon House office building across the street from the Capitol Building:
Hamas supporters engage in "insurrection" on Capitol Hill — take over House office building. pic.twitter.com/1XVIILWMp2
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) October 18, 2023
People like Tlaib, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have shamefully and instantly taken the side of Hamas terrorists over the side of our longest democratic ally in the Middle East.
Chants of “ceasefire” are aimed at derailing Israel from a mission of eradicating Hamas from Gaza and freeing itself from the imminent and ever-present threat of indiscriminate barbarism at the hands of radical Islam. The people of Gaza do need to be freed, but not from Israel, from Hamas.
Did Rashida Tlaib cry these tears for the Israeli children slaughtered in their cribs? Did she cry these tears for families ripped from their homes in the middle of the night and executed? No, she did not. Instead, her reaction is to support Hamas, chastise Israel, and ferment antisemitism as an elected official who should know better.
As they say, the lie gets around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. In this case, the lie traveled fast but the truth was not far along behind it.
The information war is almost more important for Hamas’ survival than the actual war on the ground.
