SCRUTINY MOUNTS AS MORE CCTV FOOTAGE EMERGES OF IDF HOSPITALS
February 2, 2024As more compelling CCTV footage emerges about the IDF operation that took place in Jenin Hospital in the West Bank a few days ago, scrutiny is mounting as to the legitimacy of the operation.
AP White House correspondent, Matt Lee, questioned State Department spokesperson, Matt Miller on America’s reaction and response to the attack which saw Israeli military personnel disguised as Palestinian doctors, women and civilians, enter and execute three wounded men as they slept in their hospital beds, regardless of their status as suspected or known terrorists.
Matt Lee asked: “”Well, do those operations include going into hospitals and murdering people in their beds…is that OK with you guys?””
Miller responded: “”Israel has said that these were Hamas operatives.. I’m not able to speak to the facts of the operation.””
This is further proof of the flagrant disregard Israel and its military operatives have for international law and the importance of putting an end to their decades long impunity and violent actions all over the globe.
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English Script:
Matt Lee: Okay and then my second thing, which is related, but not UNWRA, which has to do with this operation that the Israelis launched in Jenin, the hospital today. Do you have any comment on that? Is this something that you think is problematic or is it something that you look at with envy, like this is some kind of great mission impossible mission that we wish that we could also do?
Mathew Miller: So, I’d say that we strongly urge caution whenever operations have the potential to impact civilians and civilian installations. That, of course, includes hospitals. We do recognize the very real security challenges Israel faces and its legitimate right to defend its people and its territory from terrorism. Israel, of course, has the right to carry out operations to bring terrorists to justice, but those operations need to be conducted in full compliance with international humanitarian law.
Matt Lee: Those operations include going into hospitals and murdering people in their in their beds? Regardless of whether they’re you know, they are suspected or even known terrorists. Is that okay with you?
Mathew Miller: So, there is a lot in the premise of that question and obviously, they, we do know that they went into…
Matt Lee: Well, you don’t think they went in and killed complete people who were completely innocent.
Mathew Miller: So let me say this.
Matt Lee: If you did think that, then you would be condemning it right?
Mathew Miller: We certainly would. But I would say that Israel has said that these were Hamas operatives. They have said that one of them was carrying a gun at the time of the operation. So I’m not able to speak to the facts of the operation. You’d have to pass some kind of legal judgment, know all of the facts of the operation. But as a general matter, they do have the right to carry out operations to bring terrorists to justice but they need to be conducted…
Matt Lee: Including in the hospital?
Mathew Miller: So, we want them to conduct their operations in compliance with international humanitarian law. We would generally say that we don’t want them to carry out operations in hospitals, but under international humanitarian law, hospitals do lose some of their protections if they are being used to, for the planning of terrorist operations, for the execution of terrorist operations.
Matt Lee: The actual hospital building does. But I mean, going in disguised as, you know, women and doctors and whatever is something different and then going in and picking out people in particular rooms and beds and killing them seems to be something different.
Mathew Miller: So, again, not able to offer an assessment without knowing all these facts. I said some of the facts that have been presented by Israel, but that one of them was carrying a gun and that they were planning to carry out or to launch terrorist operations. So you would have to look at all of those facts to make a specific assessment about this operation. But in general, we do want to see hospitals protected. It is important that no civilians were harmed in this operation. But and as, I said, we want, we do believe that.
Matt Lee: How do you know? How do you know that?
Mathew Miller: There have been no reports of civilians who have been harmed in this operation.
Herzi Halevi: We do not want to turn hospitals into battlefields, with patients on the right and doctors and nurses on the left, and terrorists in the middle, but we are even more determined not to allow hospitals in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, Lebanon, above ground or in tunnel shafts and tunnels under hospitals, to become a place that is a cover for terrorism, and one that allows terrorists to stash weapons, to rest, to go out and carry out an attack. And where necessary, we can enter even the most complex places to eliminate terrorism, to harm terrorism, to strike terrorists.
