Military commentator Dean Dzebic, in an interview, pointed out that Israel committed a “war crime for which it will never be held accountable” by attacking a hospital in Gaza. He compared the behavior of the Israeli army to the Army of Republika Srpska (RS) when it committed a crime in Markale, and later justified itself by shifting the blame. “This is like the Markal syndrome, you fire 3,770 shells in one day, and then when one shell gets its place in media-propaganda according to the catastrophic nature of the victims – you give up everything,” said Dzebic and recalled how the spokesperson of the Israeli Air Force deleted the tweet in which he boasted that the hospital was hit and that a certain group of Hamas was destroyed in it.
How realistic is Israel’s explanation that they did not carry out the attack and that it was an unsuccessfully fired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket?
After terrible events, everyone tries to offer their own kind of interpretation. It is warfare for the information space. The same evening, fake footage of a rocket launch from a few years ago was released in order for the Israelis to confirm that Hamas was responsible for the attack on the hospital. You had a tweet from a spokesman for the Israeli Air Force saying that they operated on a hospital and destroyed a certain group of Hamas inside it, the tweet was later deleted. This is like the Markale syndrome, fire 3,770 grenades in one day, and then when one grenade gets its place in media and propaganda according to the catastrophic nature of the victims – you give up everything. The Israeli army is one of the strongest armies and is capable of destroying Hamas with surgical precision strikes. Israel uses bombs that weigh a ton, they are guided bombs that destroy entire apartment blocks. In every armed conflict, two principles collide – the principle of military necessity and the principle of proportional use of force. Israel’s military need is to destroy Hamas, but there must be some kind of proportional strike. If the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had warned via text messages, as Hamas does, that the bombing would take place, they would have absolved themselves of a kind of responsibility.
Israel is constantly targeting areas where there are civilians. How can they justify it from the military point of view?
There is no justification for such a vicious attack. You are targeting a hospital where there are a large number of wounded, children and the infirm. There is absolutely no need to attack the hospital and this is a war crime for which Israel will never be held accountable.
You cannot in any way absolve an attack in which you did not give any kind of warning. Israel today has probably the most integrated system to warn citizens that they will be the target of an attack. They will absolutely protect their population, but they don’t have any intention of warning other populations. This was also the case with the recent shooting of a civilian convoy following a route set by the IDF itself. Israel and the entire Middle East has that kind of fatalism. There was a case in 1982, at the time of the First Lebanon War, when two refugee camps were killed by will of Minister Ariel Sharon. In the Middle East, the issue of international humanitarian law is a dead letter, N1 reports.
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