“Now we know everyone will blame Israel no matter what.”
Gaza City, October 19 – A Gaza-launched rocket that hit the parking lot of a nearby medical facility two days ago instead of its announced target of Haifa, a hundred kilometers away, will serve as a test case through which the terrorist organization that runs this coastal territory will refine its response if one of their rockets ends up hitting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which houses what many consider Islam’s third-holiest site, a source within the group disclosed today.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched a barrage of rockets toward Israel at around 7 pm on Tuesday, one of which misfired, broke up shortly after launch, and struck just outside the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Hamas’s immediate response included the accusation that Israel has bombed the hospital, killing 500. The libel spread internationally and credulous media personalities and organizations failed to question the provenance or accuracy of the information, let alone how anyone could arrive so quickly at a casualty figure.
Real-time video footage, intercepted Hamas communications, IDF denials, drone photography, and other analysis soon showed that in fact a Gaza-launched rocket had struck the site, killing perhaps several dozen and barely affecting the structure or functioning of the hospital itself. Nevertheless, Hamas and its supporters – including prominent politicians and journalists in the US and UK, not to mention Arab And Iranian outlets – continued to blame Israel for the blast, and refused to update their casualty figures. The ease with which the libel spread caused Hamas to decrease its concern over targeting Jerusalem, which the group has avoided striking lest the rockets hit Al Aqsa Mosque or the nearby Dome of the Rock shrine.
“Now we know that we can just blame Israel for anything and the world will go with that,” explained the Hamas source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “The swiftness and completeness with which the worldwide media abandoned any pretense of objectivity or skepticism is an encouraging factor. Now we know that we can more liberally target Jerusalem, instead of trying to hit its outlying neighborhoods or suburbs, and if we do hit Al Aqsa, it will only rally more people against Israel, not against us.”
He noted that a rocket already hit a mosque in the Muslim village of Abu Ghosh just west of Jerusalem last week, prompting zero outcry from Muslims, and that when pieces of intercepted rockets fell in Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem this week, local rejoiced, expressing only celebration.
“Now we know everyone will blame Israel no matter what.”
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