Christians Killed in Israel-Hamas Conflict
End this conflict now!
(Before and after photo of Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza struck by Israel on Thursday)
“I’m paying a price for raising tough questions and for speaking out. But there’s no other way in my view. We need to keep striving for the pursuit of truth, even when it’s inconvenient. We need to educate ourselves about history, global powers, local and corporate interests, and much more. Without knowledge and information, we’re blind to manipulation, apathetic to its consequences on us, and are doomed to keep playing in the matrix without being aware of it.”—Efrat Fenigson
Fenigson is an Israeli independent journalist and former Israel Defense Force (IDF) intelligence officer who questions if Israel allowed the Oct. 7 Hamas attack to occur.
This is my third piece on the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. My other two, including the top one which references some of Fenigson’s work, is below:
https://sethhancock.substack.com/p/israeli-gaza-conflict-weve-got-to
https://sethhancock.substack.com/p/chaos-reigns-as-the-people-are-ruled
Without a doubt, Fenigson is spot on with that above statement. We must not fall for narrative pushers and propaganda. We must seek truth.
The above photo is of a church, dating back to 425 A.D., that Israel has admitted it hit.
But I want to start with another Christian structure bombed this week which has led to finger pointing, that being the al-Ahli al-Arabi Baptist Hospital in Gaza which was hit on Tuesday.
I’m not going to tell you what to think but rather present the evidence. I believe the evidence overwhelmingly points to it being hit by Israel. But you can make up your own mind.
I’ll start with two pieces from writers, on opposite sides on the hospital dispute, who I’ve used many times in previous pieces on separate issues.
Michael Snyder takes the Israeli narrative that claims it was a failed rocket launched by Hamas:
“When Hamas claimed that an Israeli airstrike destroyed a major hospital in Gaza and killed at least 500 people, mainstream media outlets all over the world immediately believed them and broadcast those ‘facts’ to their unsuspecting audiences.
As a result, we saw absolutely massive riots erupt in Islamic countries.
But it wasn’t true.
What actually happened is that a rocket that was fired from a cemetery behind the hospital by terrorists from Islamic Jihad malfunctioned and landed in the parking lot of the hospital…
The Israelis even captured audio of two terrorists talking about this right after it took place.
When this evidence was shown to U.S. officials, they concluded that Israel was not responsible for the damage at the hospital…”
Mac Slavo, like me, believe Israel struck the hospital:
“In an air strike yesterday, Israel hit a hospital in Gaza killing hundreds of people. The death toll was by far the highest of any single incident in Gaza during the current war, triggering protests in the occupied West Bank, Istanbul, and Amman.
According to a report by Reuters, the Palestinian Authority’s health minister, Mai Alkaila, accused Israel of ‘a massacre’ at Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital. The strike killed hundreds of people and occurred during Israel’s intense 11-day bombing campaign in Gaza. The health ministry spokesman, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said early on Wednesday that hundreds were killed and that rescue workers were still removing bodies from the rubble. In the first hours after the blast, a Gaza civil defense chief said 300 people were killed, while health ministry sources put the figure at 500.”
I’ll note, and you can read both in full, neither presented any evidence for their arguments. And that’s the problem.
The evidence that it was a failed rocket from Hamas comes down to an alleged “wiretapped phone call between two Hamas terrorists” admitting a mistake, The Sun reported, and drone footage, which can be seen in that report. The alleged audio:
On the side that Israel is to blame, well it should be noted that an IDF mouthpiece initially took credit on Twitter before deleting his post.
Then there’s the sound analysis, seen in a Twitter post, which Chris Menahan wrote:
“Damning sound analysis from X user Lord Bebo (who has beat the New York Times to major stories) suggests the strike was most likely carried out by Israel with an extremely powerful US-supplied JDAM missile (the US announced just days ago they were sending Israel more JDAMs).”
The IDF went on to hit another hospital near the Baptist hospital on Wednesday with similar images:
The Baptist hospital had been hit just a few days prior by the IDF:
Maybe the most damning piece of evidence is that Israel was warning three days straight that the hospital would be hit:
Robert Inlakesh wrote a lengthy expose going through all the evidence that the IDF dropped the bomb. He wrote:
“To begin with, the Israeli military had directly threatened 22 hospitals inside the Gaza strip in the days leading up to the attack on the al-Ahli, in what the World Health Organisation (WHO) had branded a “death sentence”. Calls were received from the hospitals, warning them to evacuate or face the consequences, as Israel informed them that they intended to strike them as legitimate targets. There has been no intelligence information presented to suggest that any military presence exists at the hospitals, nor is it feasible for the hospitals to evacuate, not least of which is because there are wounded patients inside who cannot be abandoned, along with families who have decided to take shelter at the hospitals after their homes no longer remained safe or were destroyed due to Israeli bombing.
So far, during Israel’s war against the Gaza Strip, there has not been a single high-value military target that has been struck inside the besieged coastal enclave and the Israeli government has made it clear that they are working their war in phases. We know that Israel has not struck any high value military targets, because the Israeli military are yet to even announce that they have achieved this, while we have no reports from within Gaza indicating this either. In an interview on CNN, an Israeli soldier, Betzal Taljah, clearly states that “this is not just a war with Hamas, the war [is] with all the civilians“, which aligns with the targets that have been reportedly hit in Gaza.”
There’s a plethora of more evidence in that piece including an investigation from Channel 4 News in the U.K. which had a dialect expert who found the alleged audio of Hamas members admitting to a mistake is a “clear fabrication due to ‘language, accent, dialect, syntax and tone,’” Inlakesh wrote.
Other sources:
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64061
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/israeli-false-flag-possibility/
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/israel-bombed-al-ahli-hospital/
Civilians have been routinely targeted by the IDF, whether you want to believe it or not.
In the course of just six days, Israel has dropped more bombs on Gaza than America did in the course of a year in Afghanistan. And Gaza is a much smaller space with about 2.4 million people, more than half children, and is more densely populated than Tokyo. Sources:
“In the space of 6 days in Gaza, Israel dropped almost as many bombs as the US airforce did in Afghanistan over the space of an entire year. Unlike Afghanistan, which is vast and possesses places to hide, the Gaza Strip is a territory that is smaller than the length of a marathon in length and roughly the size of New York’s central park in width. Israel has cut off the water, food, fuel, and electricity to Gaza, is preventing all humanitarian aid from coming in, while the people are unable to leave. Israel’s army told some 1.1 million Gazans living in the north and center of the strip to flee to the south, claiming it had opened safe routes before massacring hundreds of civilians who had followed their orders. Tel Aviv is currently comparing Hamas to Daesh (ISIS/IS), yet by comparison, at the very peak of the US-led coalitions bombing campaign against Daesh, they released 5,000 bombs across Iraq and Syria, within the period of a month. Israel on the other hand, dropped over 6,000 bombs in less than a week.
Gaza is more densely populated than Tokyo, it is home to just under 2.4 million people, and of that population over half are children under the age of 18. Israel has killed roughly as many Palestinian children in Gaza, since the beginning of the war on October 7, that Hamas has killed in total from the Israeli population; this includes the hundreds of Israeli soldiers, armed settlers, security personnel, intelligence operatives, and police. This, as the UN announced that its shelters are at full capacity, holding over 400,000 displaced people. In fact, the Palestinian death toll, surpassing 3,000 civilian deaths, cannot even be accurately recorded at this moment as the Palestinian rescue team in Gaza do not possess the ability to recover all of the bodies under the rubble. In conclusion, to call this a massacre is an understatement.”
The same day that the hospital was hit, at least 6 were killed in a UN school bombed by Israel in Gaza.
Now, let’s go to the Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church bombed by the IDF on Thursday. The IDF tweeted then deleted video of its strike, likely because it wouldn’t look good for them.
“Dozens of men searched the collapsed building into the night, looking for survivors – and for bodies to retrieve the next day. Those on the lower floor had been crushed to death, one rescuer told Reuters, while people higher up had survived to face another day under attack.
‘They felt they would be safe here,’ a man cried out. ‘They came from under the bombardment and the destruction, and they said they would be safe here but destruction chased them.’
The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which runs the church, said many of those inside at the time were women and children, and accused Israel of targeting churches.
‘The Patriarchate emphasizes that targeting churches and their institutions, along with the shelters they provide to protect innocent citizens … constitutes a war crime that cannot be ignored,’ it said in a statement.
The Israeli military said it had damaged “a wall of a church” when it hit a Hamas ‘command and control center’ nearby, but denied intentionally targeting Saint Porphyrius.”
A reverend from Bethlehem stated 20 Christians were killed from the strike:
Included in the deaths were family members of former Congressman Justin Amash, an American-born Christian of Palestinian decent. He tweeted:
“With great sadness, I have now confirmed that several of my relatives (including Viola and Yara pictured here) were killed at Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza, where they had been sheltering, when part of the complex was destroyed as the result of an Israeli airstrike. Give rest, O Lord, to their souls, and may their memories be eternal.
The Palestinian Christian community has endured so much. Our family is hurting badly. May God watch over all Christians in Gaza—and all Israelis and Palestinians who are suffering, whatever their religion or creed.”
The photo in the tweet:
The procession at the church honoring the dead:
“The US, in a continued demonstration of the degree of enbubblement of what passes for its leadership, seems to believe it still has the force and soft power to be able to bully talk its way out of its geopolitical messes. Yet this week we have stunning examples of how critical players in the rest to the world no longer buy what the US is selling. The gap between the American establishment’s connection to reality and facts on the ground has opened up to a yawning chasm as the Arab world, aa Jordan cancelled a Biden summit with its king Abduallah II plus PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in response to Israel’s shelling of Al-Ahli Arab hospital. Not only are they rejecting the attempt to shift blame for the attack to Hamas (we’ll soon address the “rogue shell” claim), but also the bigger pretense behind that, that the US is incapable of, as opposed to unwilling to, applying the choke chain to Israel.
Even the Western media are not much on board with the Israeli and Biden Administration pretense that somehow Hamas dunnit, when Israel has been trying to herd Palestinians out of northern Gaza and specifically attempted to order the evacuation of the hospital. Oh, and this follows Israel ordering the UN to evacuate from Gaza in 24 hours and then shelling its warehouse there….
Israel has been acting as if it’s indifferent to forcing Palestinians out of Israel versus eliminating them in place. There are credible accounts of Israel not only refusing to allow humanitarian aid in from Egypt and foreign passport holders out, but also multiple Israeli shellings of the crossing point. It does not take much in the way of discernment to see that denying Palestinians in Gaza water and food is a death sentence.”
End this Conflict Now
I’ll note with the hospital, there’s even differing numbers out on how many died. Some figures are 100 to 300, others are 300 to 500.
Regardless, people died there, innocent people. Take a look at the evidence and make up your own mind on the hospital, but does it really doesn’t matter who is to blame? The blood lust has to end. Both sides of the fighting continue to be run by monstrous, bloodthirsty people. And civilian Israelis and Palestinians are the ones hurting.
Yet, we have the bloodthirst, warmongering Biden raising in to keep the conflict going. In taking Israel’s side on the hospital strike boiling it down to “it appears as though it was done by the other team.”
Really? This isn’t team sports you monster. This is death and destruction. And maybe that’s the whole point, death of the West by the globalist controllers. Moon of Alabama wrote:
“Western media start to note how their politicians' unwavering support for Israel and Ukraine is diminishing their countries' global standing….
Some might say that the west will never change its behavior but I do not believe that.
The west WILL HAVE TO change its behavior or it will go down into history's graveyard. There is no longer an alternative as the 'rules based order' has proven to be an unsellable dead end.”
On the hospital, Brian Shilhavy wrote:
“This horrible incident shows an important truth about the population in Gaza that is seldom reported in the U.S. media, that Muslims are not the only residents in Gaza, but that there is a strong Christian presence there as well.”
Shilhavy goes on to say “question everything” and be skeptical:
“These are very dark and evil times, and there is so much propaganda on both sides of this issue that it can be very difficult to ascertain the truth. Please do not be quick to rush to a specific judgment or conclusion about something, but rather follow these principles that I use when viewing my news feeds.
First, as I have repeatedly stated, there is no single group of people in the world that are all unified in thought or action. To believe so, is to participate in ‘prejudice’ and ‘discrimination.’
When you encounter a statement that says ‘Palestinians/Jews are all [fill in the blank],’ then you can be 100% certain that such a statement is FALSE! It is NOT the truth….
Second, before deciding whether or not to take sides or agree with one position over the other, first ask: Is it true?
So many people on BOTH sides of this current conflict have been caught supplying fake photos and fake narratives where they had to walk back their comments….
Third, get the perspective of the other side! There is this kind of ‘ethic' in American culture that we all have to take sides on every issue.
No, we do not!
You will have a difficult time finding the truth if all you do is seek out news and information that fits in with your current belief system. This is called ‘confirmation bias’ and other such terms, and it is the product of letting the Globalists divide us over all these issues, thinking we have to choose sides….
But it is obvious that many people do not seem to have the ability to be objective and try to view something from someone else’s perspective that is different than their own, because I had a few readers email me and attack me for writing about ‘the Holocaust’ that they claim never happened. They completely missed the whole point of listening to someone else’s perspective just for the purpose of being educated about how people who are different from ourselves think….
As believers in Jesus Christ, we are called to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to strive for peace. The entire world is filled with negative energy right now promoting hatred, prejudice, and war.
We can oppose these demonic energy forces by choosing to love instead, praying for peace for ALL people who are suffering right now from this war.”