On Oct. 29th, the IDF reportedly evacuated around 5,000 Palestinian civilians from Jabalya in northern Gaza – including patients of Kamal Adwan Hospital – who Hamas terrorists were using as Human shields. The military was then able to encircle several hundreds terrorists, out of an estimated 1,000 thought to have regrouped in the city, forcing many to surrender.
Despite the return of a significant number of Hamas fighters to the northern part of the territory, which has been widely reported in the Israeli media, the Guardian’s coverage of events in the north has effectively erased the proscribed terror group, as well as their cruel and illegal use of human shields.
A recent piece in the Guardian, by Gaza-based Malak A Tantesh and the outlet’s senior international correspondent Julian Borger, is another example of their myopic, dishonest and grossly misleading coverage. The piece (Death is everywhere’: fears grow that Israel plans to seize land in Gaza, Nov. 2) focuses on the plight of civilians in northern Gaza, while framing the military’s operation against Hamas terrorists in cities such as Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia as merely an IDF “claim”.
The piece devotes several paragraphs speculating on whether, rather than fighting Hamas, the IDF is in the process of implementing what’s been called ‘the Generals’ Plan’, “named after the retired senior officers promoting it, was intended to depopulate northern Gaza by giving the Palestinians trapped there an opportunity to evacuate and then treating those that stayed as combatants, laying total siege“. The piece acknowledges that the government has denied this ‘plan’ has been adopted, but then pivots to claims by an unnamed ‘human rights’ group which insists, without evidence, that it has been.
In fact, as we noted previously on these pages, Jerusalem has adamantly denied that any such plan was being implemented or is even being considered.
Typical of the Guardian’s erasure of the terrorist group responsible for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is this sentence:
Israeli ground troops have laid siege to three areas – Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and the Jabalia refugee camp – in the northern Gaza governorate, where there are estimated to be about 75,000 people.
The missing word in that sentence is “Hamas”, as Israeli soldiers have “laid seige”to Hamas fighters who have regrouped in those three cities.
The article then misleads on the activities of UNRWA.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN relief agency Unrwa, made an emergency appeal on 22 October, calling for “an immediate truce, even for a few hours, to enable safe humanitarian passage for families who wish to leave the area and reach safer places”.
There was no response from the Israeli authorities, whose official position is not to deal with Unrwa, by far the biggest aid agency in Gaza
However, as data from COGAT demonstrates, the overwhelming majority of aid being sent to Gaza is facilitated by aid agencies other than UNRWA.
The article grossly misleads again, in claiming that barely any aid “is reaching the north“. In fact, all the Guardian journalists had to do with check the frequent X updates from COGAT to see that humanitarian aid of all sorts are arriving in northern Gaza.
The article again fails to fact check UN claims, as readers are told that “the UN humanitarian affairs coordination agency, OCHA, reported that, as of Thursday, no bakeries or public kitchens in north Gaza are operational”, ignoring reports from COGAT that four bakeries are in fact open in the north.
The deceit continues when the journalists claim that fuel has NOT been allowed in the north since 1 October, omitting reports from COGAT that trucks of fuel have indeed entered northern Gaza in October.
Even more misinformation is introduced when we’re told that “the residual health facilities inside the besieged zone, the Kamal Adwan, al-Awda and Indonesian hospitals, have been targeted” and “raided by the IDF“. Remarkably, the Guardian journalists completely omit the fact that the hospitals were “raided” by the military – after they evacuated most patients to health facilities further south – to deal with Hamas fighters were using them as a base of military operations.
The IDF op resulted in roughly 100 arrests of terror operatives and the seizure of weapons illegally stored in the medical facility.
Since the beginning of the war, the Guardian has consistently failed to report on Gaza terrorists operating from inside hospitals across Gaza, using them to hold hostages, execute terror attacks and store weapons – representing another example of how the outlet’s coverage of the war has been effectively pro-Hamas.
The Grauniad, by its continual attempts to put Hamas’s case in the “right” by refusing to print true facts of the war – is simply proving to the world that its editorship is firmly under the control of the leadership of extreme Islam (ie Iran).