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Continued operations on Islamic Republic of Iran, proxies , May 4 2026+ - sources: Pt II (view source)
Revision as of 02:33, September 16, 2026
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The Gaza casualty figures the West was too frightened to question.
New evidence suggests some 'journalists' and 'medics' were also Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives.
written by Gary Cartwright September 5, 2026
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It is particularly revealing that Hamas and PIJ have now begun publishing names of their own dead fighters. Those obituaries provide information which was largely unavailable during the war. In several cases, they have effectively contradicted the original classification of the dead by international media and monitoring organisations.
The response should not be to conclude that every dead Palestinian journalist was a terrorist, or that every Palestinian doctor was secretly a militant. That would be very wrong. The proper conclusion is that every casualty database requires scrutiny.
There is another uncomfortable possibility that Western commentators have been reluctant to contemplate: Hamas and PIJ may have understood perfectly well the extraordinary political and emotional power of civilian status in the Western information environment.
A dead journalist generates headlines, as does a dead doctor. A dead paramedic produces photographs of ambulances, uniforms and bloodied medical equipment. A dead Hamas fighter produces none of these things.
If militant organisations deliberately blurred those categories, they were exploiting precisely the protections that democratic societies have painstakingly established for civilians and humanitarian workers, and that would be a particularly cynical form of information warfare.
But there is an equally important warning for Israel. The discovery of genuine Hamas or PIJ members among journalists and medical personnel does not give the Israeli military a licence to regard every journalist, doctor or paramedic as a terrorist. Nor does it eliminate Israel’s obligation to establish, before an attack where feasible, that a legitimate military target actually exists.
Indeed, recent events demonstrate why that distinction matters. An investigation published this week into the 2024 killing of World Central Kitchen workers has raised serious questions about Israeli targeting practices and the use of guilt by association.
Similarly, the Israeli military has recently opened criminal investigations into the deaths of five-year-old Hind Rajab and 15 Palestinian paramedics, after previously denying or disputing aspects of what happened.
So there are two truths which ought to be capable of existing simultaneously. Hamas and PIJ may have exploited civilian professions for military and propaganda purposes, and Israel can still be responsible for unlawful or reckless attacks against genuine civilians.
The refusal to acknowledge the first truth because it complicates the second is propaganda. The refusal to acknowledge the second because it complicates the first is propaganda too. What is most troubling is the intellectual laziness of the Western debate.
For years, journalists and politicians have demanded that Israel substantiate allegations about Hamas operating from civilian infrastructure. That demand is legitimate, but the same standard should now be applied in the opposite direction.
When an individual appears in hospital photographs wearing medical clothing and subsequently appears in militant imagery carrying a weapon, journalists should investigate, and when the evidence does not stand up, that should be reported too.
That is what journalism is supposed to mean.
The greatest danger is not discovering that Hamas sometimes lied about its dead, it is in discovering that Western media organisations were so invested in a particular leftist narrative that they stopped asking whether it was true.
Gaza has produced enough suffering without adding another casualty to the list: the credibility of journalism itself.
[https://eutoday.net/gaza-casualty-figures/ EUToday]
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“We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump tells Republican convention.
“We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump tells Republican convention.
Sep 10, 2026 [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-89f0-d585-adf3-edfc05640000 JNS]
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Israel, Cyprus advance emergency-response cooperation.
Israel, Cyprus advance emergency-response cooperation.
Sep 10, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-8b19-d816-a3b4-cffd2e6b0000 JNS]
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-8b19-d816-a3b4-cffd2e6b0000 JNS]