Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital — To Save the World From a Camera.

So, Israel has a brand-new defense for bombing a hospital: there was a camera. Yes, you read that right. The Israel Defense Forces — the most “moral army in the world” (their words, not ours) — turned the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis into rubble because, allegedly, Hamas had placed an “observation camera” there.

No proof, of course. Just a statement.

And what did this surgical strike against a lens achieve? At least 20 people killed. Among them: five Palestinian journalists working for Reuters, AP, and Al Jazeera. Also hospital staff, patients, and rescue workers who rushed in after the first explosion — only to be hit again by Israel’s infamous “double tap” strike.

But don’t worry, Israel assures us, six of the dead were militants. How convenient. How retroactively tidy. Never mind that one of those “terrorists” was Hussam al-Masri — a Reuters photojournalist livestreaming from the hospital staircase. His weapon? A tripod and a LiveU unit. In Israel’s eyes, that’s apparently a weapon of mass destruction.

Let’s pause here: Israel bombed a hospital to eliminate a camera — a camera that journalists had been openly using for months to livestream Israel’s devastation of Gaza. To the IDF, the greatest threat in Gaza is not hunger, disease, or mass civilian death. It’s a lens pointed at their crimes.

And the excuse-making follows the same tired script we’ve heard before:

World Central Kitchen massacre? Seven aid workers blown apart in clearly marked vehicles. Excuse: tragic mistake, bad coordinates.
UN aid convoys and ambulances bombed and buried with their staff? Excuse: militants were hiding inside.
The Flour Massacre? When hundreds of starving Gazans were gunned down as they lined up for food. Excuse: they weren’t shot — they were trampled by their own desperation.
And now, Nasser Hospital? Excuse: it wasn’t a war crime, it was a heroic strike against… a camera.

Each time, after a little hue and cry from the world, the script is dusted off and replayed: regret, excuse, self-investigation, innocence declared, case closed. Meanwhile, the bodies pile higher.

Netanyahu’s office first called this latest atrocity a “tragic mishap.” By the next day, the narrative had shape-shifted: oh, it was actually a bold counterterrorism mission. The enemy wasn’t patients, nurses, or reporters — it was a camera. Israel couldn’t bomb the truth out of Gaza, so it bombed the journalists showing it.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has counted nearly 200 reporters killed since October 2023. This makes Gaza the deadliest war zone for journalists in modern history. And the deadliest place to hold a camera. Because in this war, Israel isn’t just destroying lives — it’s destroying testimony. Silencing the witnesses is as essential to the war effort as the bombs themselves.

Reuters and AP know it. They wrote a letter to Israeli officials pointing out the obvious: Israel’s “investigations” rarely produce clarity or accountability. Translation: Israel investigates itself, finds itself innocent, and the bodies of journalists are filed away as “tragic mistakes.”

But the pattern is clear:

Hospitals aren’t safe.
Journalists aren’t safe.
Patients and doctors aren’t safe.
Rescue workers aren’t safe.

Only the narrative is safe. As long as the camera is destroyed.

So let’s call this strike what it was: not an attack on a hospital, not an accident, not even a military miscalculation. It was an execution of the truth. Israel bombed the eyes and ears of the world, and then asked us to nod along while they told us it was about “security.”

Because in the Gaza war, the most dangerous weapon isn’t a rocket. It’s a camera.

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