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An obscene amount of aid is waiting to get picked up on Gazan side of the border with Israel. 950 trucks to be precise. Why are international NGOs not picking it up when they warn - every single day - about starvation in Gaza? @WFP
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This is the aerial photo the @IDF released this morning following a strike on terrorists using an @UNRWA school in #Nusierat.
We know: What 3 rooms the #Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were using.
We assess that: 20-30 terrorists were in the compound at the time of the strike.
We targeted: Precision strikes on the specific classrooms.
What were the terrorists doing in a @UN school: The compound was used for staging attacks and as a forward operating base.
How we planned the strike: Based on the intelligence, precision munitions, surveillance and intelligence.
Precautions we took: We called off the strikes twice to be are precise as possible ensure limited civilian casualties.
We will announce the terrorists targeted as soon as possible.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟓 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐞’𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐢𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐍 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡.
Civilian loss of life is terrible. You can’t weigh suffering on either side; tears of grief have their own immeasurable weight.
But intention is key.
The fact that all innocent lives are equally valued does not mean that anyone who takes an innocent life is equally culpable.
Words matter.
A number of media organisations have editorial guidelines directing them not to use the term 'terrorist' in their reporting of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
These guidelines may be borne out of well-intentioned aspirations to appear accurate and impartial. But there is a point at which the failure to use the term 'terrorist', is itself a failure of accuracy and impartiality.
The depth of the terror that Hamas has inflicted upon innocent people across Israel in recent days is not in doubt. The murder of babies where they sleep is not the act of a 'freedom fighter'. The performative desecration of dead bodies for the benefit of social media, the rape of women and the beheading of civilians in their homes, are not the acts of 'militants'.
The true motives of Hamas could not be clearer. It seeks the murder of Jews and the annihilation of the Jewish state. Their charter says as much. Hamas is no different to ISIS. Did decent, moral people seek to justify the actions of 9/11, 7/7 or the Manchester Arena bombing?
It should be painfully obvious that there is no moral equivalence between those whose motive is to deliberately target innocent civilians in cold blood, and those whose motive is to remove the threat of such murderers. The fact that this discussion is necessary at all is a clear sign that we are losing our moral compass and of the warped nature of the depths to which discourse on Israel has sunk.
And so I call upon broadcasters to urgently change the way they describe Hamas. Further, I call upon all decent people to have the courage to call out this terror for what it is. We must all be unequivocal that the loss of any innocent life is a tragedy, and that the barbaric, murderous terrrorism of Hamas cannot be denied or obfuscated. It is a matter of deepest regret that some feel otherwise.
This is not 'resistance' or 'struggle'. It is terrorism. To purposefully avoid that word is to wilfully mislead.