https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/10/what-reporters-arent-telling-you-about.html
There have been a number of stories about Gaza City's Shifa Hospital and how it is trying to cope with the number of injured
But Shifa isn't only famous for being the biggest hospital in Gaza.
It is known for being the headquarters of Hamas. And this has been well known since at least 2009.
As Tablet wrote in 2014:
Judging from the coverage in this round, the reporters are sticking to the Hamas playbook perfectly.
Hamas doesn't only hold meetings, treat its members separately, and use the hospital as a command and control center. It has also used it as a launching pad for rockets - something else reporters only rarely would mention out of fear. A Finnish reporter bravely said that she witnessed a rocket launch from there. in 2014: "At two o'clock in the morning from the parking lot located behind the hospital, a rocket was launched. This really happened right here, and the sound was very loud."
She's one of the few exceptions that prove the rule.
When Israel bombed the tunnels under Al Wehda street in 2021, reporters didn't mention that Shifa Hospital is right at the end of the street - meaning, it is a hub or terminal for Hamas' extensive tunnel system, and a bomb aimed at that tunnel could collapse the hospital over the heads of the patients. (Israel actually built the underground bunker at the hospital in 1983 to be a secure location for operating rooms.)
A report by Amnesty International in 2015 said Hamas used a section of the hospital “to detain, interrogate, torture and otherwise ill-treat suspects, even as other parts of the hospital continued to function as a medical centre.”
Shifa Hospital is the paradigm of how Hamas uses human shields and how it endangers civilians. But because Hamas doesn't want reporters to mention that....they almost never do.
