A Gazan family was filmed this week injured by an Israeli airstrike. But instead of blaming Israel, they blamed Hamas. Why? Because they knew that if Hamas hadn’t used them as human shields, they wouldn’t have been harmed.
Far from the lies of anti-Israel activists, the reality is that Israel consistently attempts to avoid civilian casualties — and it seems many Palestinians understand this.
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In the video we see a young family getting out of an ambulance at a hospital, their clothes covered in dust. “Why are you filming? Here, film. Film our death!” the boy yells hysterically at the camera. “Hamas — may Allah curse you, evildoers. May Allah avenge you.”
A man, likely the children’s father, says, “This is the holiday, and they (Hamas) come to hide among the people.”
“Allah saved us. Allah saved us,” the father adds, seemingly amazed that the family survived.
The family narrowly escaped death. Yes, it was an Israeli airstrike that caused the damage, but they weren’t blaming Israel — they were blaming Hamas. These Gazans knew the truth: Israel targets terrorists, not civilians. And they knew they would have been safe if Hamas hadn’t used them as cover.
Those in Gaza have long known this fact. In May 2021, the then-head of UNRWA operations in Gaza was removed from his position after speaking truthfully about Israel’s precision airstrikes.
Matthias Schmale, head of Gaza operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said in an interview:
“I would not dispute that [Israel’s strikes] were very precise… I have the impression there is huge sophistication in the way the Israeli military struck over the last eleven days.”
He acknowledged the viciousness of the strikes but emphasized that they rarely hit civilian targets.
His comments sparked widespread protests in Gaza, leading to his removal from the position, clearly due to pressure from both anti-Israel activists in the west and Hamas and its supporters inside Gaza. Because he wasn’t speaking the Hamas false narrative, he was out.
The two examples given above counter anti-Israel voices who make false accusations against Israel – a narrative that claims Israel indiscriminately bombs Gaza to the point that it is committing a ‘genocide’. But the reality is that Israel does everything possible to avoid civilian deaths and it is quite successful.
Just this week, researchers have unveiled that 72% of deaths in Gaza have been males aged between 13-55 – the demographic that aligns with Hamas combatants. Hamas uses child soldiers, training and recruiting young teens and using them in terror operations. The figures come from analysing Hamas’s own data, after the Gaza Health Ministry (which is run by Hamas) removed 3,400 names of women and children that it had previously said were fully ‘identified’, but it turns out were not killed at all and were just used in its propaganda against Israel.
The research is based on Hamas’s own figures. So while the terror group claims that 70% of those killed in Gaza are ‘civilians’ the reality is quite the opposite.
Sadly, the United Nations, countless anti-Israel NGOs, and indeed media outlets like the BBC have used the false figures and treated them as fact. This has resulted in Israel being demonised globally and Jews being targeted by antisemites who have been hoodwinked by the lies of Hamas.
As we said at the start of this article, the people of Gaza know the truth. That’s why you see families openly blaming Hamas for the devastation caused by Israeli airstrikes. It’s also why some Palestinians are willing to lie on camera, fabricate stories, apply makeup to simulate injuries, and stage dramatic scenes of destruction — a phenomenon widely known as ‘Pallywood.’ These efforts are designed to promote a false narrative against Israel. Think about it, if Israel was truly as evil as its enemies would have the world believe, there would be no need for anyone to invent lies or create staged videos to demonise the Jewish state.
Israel uses precise weaponry, even putting its own soldiers’ lives at greater risk by using more careful methods to reduce casualties. Meanwhile, Hamas embeds itself within the civilian population, using homes, schools, hospitals, and mosques to hide its weapons and fighters. For Hamas, every civilian death is a propaganda victory. For Israel, every civilian death is a tragedy.
Thankfully, Israel is prevailing in this war in more ways than one. Gaza is one of the most densely populated war zones on Earth, and yet, according to multiple sources, Israel has achieved one of the lowest civilian-to-combatant death ratios in the history of modern warfare.
Israel’s war against Hamas is not only to protect Israelis from terrorism but also to liberate Gaza from the stranglehold of a brutal regime that sacrifices its own people in its evil pursuit to destroy Israel.
