By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem
The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.
It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.
He’d been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.
He’d heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. “You need to escape,” somebody in the street shouted, “because they will bomb the towers”.
Imagine trying to justify thousands of murdered children because some people decided to attack a festival.
An attack, I might add, the government had been informed of and bafflingly did the opposite of adding protection to heavy traffic areas…
That’s because Netanyahu has a long history of supporting Hamas for his own political gains.
For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces, Times of Israel, 8 October 2023
The symbiotic relationship between Netanyahu and Hamas, The Hill, October 22, 2023
Why Netanyahu helped fund Hamas and how that backfired for Israel, India Today, November 1, 2023
Video: Ex-Saudi intel chief accuses Israel of ‘funnelling’ Qatari money to Hamas, India Today, October 31, 2023
How Netanyahu’s Hamas policy came back to haunt him — and Israel, CBC News, October 28, 2023
Liberman: Netanyahu sent Mossad head, general to Qatar, ‘begged’ it to pay Hamas, Times of Israel, February 20, 2022
Netanyahu: Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep Palestinians divided, Jerusalem Post, March 12, 2019
Whew, thanks for the links. So much blood on Bibi’s hands.
Thanks for this. I will save this for later for all the fascists I talk to, who thinks it’s okay to kill children because “they voted for hamas”