Israeli Massacre Kills 276 Palestinians, 4 Hostages Freed US intelligence helped locate hostages

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Despite the celebrations in Israel regarding the freeing of four live hostages, there are less remarked, but deeply disturbing aspects of the operation. Of course, the worst is the horrendous death toll: over 210 236 276 Palestinians murdered and 400 wounded, including women and babies. It is the worst massacre of many in the eight-month long genocide there.  An IDF commander was killed, and Hamas claims other hostages were killed as well, though this has not been verified.

UPDATE: Israeli media reports that the IDF had infiltrated soldiers disguised as Palestinians (mistarvim) before the attack. They had either surveilled the two buildings in which the hostages were housed; or had that information from US Intelligence (see below). The mistarvim also led the attack which initially freed the hostages.

This report confirms that the Israeli forces used Palestinian humanitarian aid vehicles to infiltrate the camp without suspicion on the part of residents. Under international humanitarian law, this is considered “perfidy” and a war crime (see Itay Epstein’s tweet below):

“I learnt that Israeli special forces had infiltrated the camp with Palestinian aid vehicles, all as a distraction to divert the attention of the people in the camp from the operation they came for, to liberate Israeli hostages.”

Several other witnesses reported similar details to AFP…

Additional Protocol I #IHL defines perfidy as “acts inviting the confidence of an adversary to lead him to believe that he is entitled to, or obliged to accord, protection under the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, with intent to betray that confidence.”…

— Itay Epshtain (@EpshtainItay) June 8, 2024

In the video below, the second vehicle in the convoy is a furniture truck (not a “humanitarian truck,” that was a different vehicle) which was to transport the hostages to the helicopter (see below). It later broke down during the escape:

And the humanitarian truck that Israeli forces used to carry out this massacre?

Every accusation is a confession.pic.twitter.com/nTIGcmeBjZ

— لينة (@LinahAlsaafin) June 8, 2024

The truck in the video was supposed to pick up the hostages and convey them to a helicopter. But the truck broke down. As Palestinian fighters realized what was happening, they ran toward the truck firing their weapons. This is the point at which the IDF essentially vaporized the camp, in order to cover the escape from the truck.  Other backup vehicles on standby in case of such a failure made the final escape.

This is similar to the infiltration of a Sayeret Matkal team into Gaza several years ago, to implant surveillance devices. They too were mistarvim commanded by an Israeli Bedouin senior officer. During a routine stop at a checkpoint, a Hamas fighter noticed that the team leader spoke Arabic with a non-Gazan accent. This aroused suspicion, a gunfight ensued, 20 Palestinians died along with the IDF commander. The only difference is that the IDF did not level the neighborhood to cover the rescue.

A survivor of the IDF blitzkrieg called it “hell on earth”:

“There are children torn apart and scattered in the streets. They wiped out Nuseirat. It is hell on earth,” he said.

Another local, Abu Abdallah, said the strikes hit while people were sleeping. “Dogs were eating people’s remains,” he said. “We pulled out six martyrs, all torn up children and women. We risked our lives to get them to the hospital.”

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No amount of freed hostages that can justify such bloodletting. At least not in a civilized society. Of course, Israel is a society of death and wanton destruction. Civilization and humanity have long since been smothered like a baby in its cradle.

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Also lost in reporting on this catastrophe, is that ALL the hostages could have been released weeks, if not months ago. Bibi Netanyahu has had a deal on the table. That includes the most recent Biden proposal. He refused, offering the lie that Israel would not stop until Hamas was destroyed. He may be a pathological liar, but he certainly knows this isn’t possible, as even Israeli security experts have conceded.

The Israeli PM needs this war to save his skin. Polling over the last few months consistently shows he will likely lose the next election; following which he could face a reckoning in the courts, where he faces multiple corruption counts. A guilty verdict would land him in prison and stain his legacy forever. He desperately wants to avoid that and is willing to sacrifice the lives of the 300 IDF soldiers killed since 10/7, plus the hostages and Palestinians. Also note that all the hostages killed since 10/7 died at the hands of the IDF. All of them sacrificed on the altar of Bibi’s hubris.

You will not hear such reporting in the Israeli media. The entire country is rapturous over the freed hostages. Bibi and the IDF are basking in the reflected glory, which they do not deserve as war criminals.

The trail of culpability for this massacre leads to the US door as well. Since 10/7 a US military intelligence team has set up shop in Israel and uses surveillance technology to aid the IDF in its genocide. Such information provided to the IDF led to this disastrous bloodbath.

As one would expect, Biden’s national security advisor “congratulated” Israeli forces for their feat. Biden is an accessory to mass murder. He provided not only billions in our most advanced weapons, US intelligence provided the vital intelligence needed to perpetrate this operation:

Hamas released this statement concerning US complicity:

American participation in the criminal operation that was carried out today proves once again the complicit role of the American administration, its full participation in the war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, [and] the falsity of its declared positions on the humanitarian situation and its concern for the lives of civilians.”

Biden made the mistake of thinking he could provide the weapons for genocide and still be the hero by proposing his ceasefire last week. Well, Israel’s bloodbath transformed a proposal which was dead in the water when he first offered it, to now being drowned. People are like that when they’re slaughtered. They don’t take kindly to those who massacre them and are accessories to their annihilation. The bitter irony is that US intelligence provided the critical information enabling this butchery, which in turn ran the ceasefire campaign off the rails.

Biden is an utter fool, who has the blood of thousands on his hands. US voters, remember that come November.