Speaker 1: Hey, guys, have a bunch of updates that we wanted
Speaker 1: to provide you this morning coming out of Gaza in
Speaker 1: Israel's war on the Gaza Strip. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start with the very latest in terms of IDF targeting.
Speaker 1: They have just struck a un run school within a
Speaker 1: refugee camp. Estimates of casualties at this point are quite high.
Speaker 1: The numbers I've seen are dozens of people killed, more
Speaker 1: than fifty or at least fifty killed in that attack.
Speaker 1: This is a place in the northern part of the
Speaker 1: Gaza Strip. It's in one of those refugee camps that
Speaker 1: has been hit repeatedly. And the reason that the casualty
Speaker 1: numbers appear to be so high is because you had
Speaker 1: thousands of people who were sheltering in this un run school.
Speaker 1: We do have a report from Katari affiliated Al Jazeera
Speaker 1: on the ground showing some of the scenes of horror
Speaker 1: that are unfolding there right now. Let's take a look.
Speaker 2: Yes, the Jabelli At refugee camp has been bombarded again
Speaker 2: by the uspect occupation forces and this time and you
Speaker 2: United Nations shelter had been completely attacked by the Isbelian
Speaker 2: forces where people are taking shelter in science this school. Now,
Speaker 2: with the ongoing attacks that took place in the north
Speaker 2: of Gaza Strip, the majority of people tinto unitenation shilters
Speaker 2: and the vicinity of the Antonesian hospital in order to
Speaker 2: be protected from these Waly occupation fire.
Speaker 1: So this comes of course, as we have been continuing
Speaker 1: to follow the carnate and the fallout from the rating
Speaker 1: of Al Shifa Hospital, and I have some updates for
Speaker 1: you there as well. So there are some conflicting reports
Speaker 1: about whether or not the IDF demanded that everyone evacuate
Speaker 1: from that hospital, but we can go ahead and show
Speaker 1: you some of the scenes of chaos inside as doctors
Speaker 1: say they rush to try to prepare patients as best
Speaker 1: as they possibly could, many of whom you see here
Speaker 1: are horrifically injured to attempt to flee and evacuate on foot. Now,
Speaker 1: the IDF is saying that they were not demanding that
Speaker 1: people evacuate, but we can see from radar images that
Speaker 1: certainly there are hundreds of people leaving this hospital on
Speaker 1: foot right now. And you can imagine just what an
Speaker 1: unbelievably difficult, to use the lightest term possible situation, that
Speaker 1: is you have people who are gravely injured trying to
Speaker 1: flee with already you know, incredibly compromised wounds. There are
Speaker 1: no vehicles, the roads are very difficult. It's it's incredibly dangerous,
Speaker 1: and you already have quite a toll that has been
Speaker 1: taken on human life here. You could put this up
Speaker 1: on the screen. So the director of Alshifa Hospital and
Speaker 1: Gaza reports that the a siege by Israeli forces has
Speaker 1: now killed everyone in the intensive care unit. That is
Speaker 1: twenty two people they said, who were in the ICU
Speaker 1: unit who have already been killed from their wounds because
Speaker 1: of a lack of electricity, a lack of basic supplies,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure also partly a lack of manpower due
Speaker 1: to how many people are in that hospital and we're
Speaker 1: trying to seek care. You also had six dialysis patients
Speaker 1: who have been killed at this point, and the latest
Speaker 1: reports that I saw were, you know, at least four
Speaker 1: of those premature babies that were dependent on the incubators,
Speaker 1: and of course the incubators lost electricity when the hospital
Speaker 1: ran on a fuel. At least four of those premature
Speaker 1: babies have been killed at this point. Now you'll the
Speaker 1: Israeli justification for this incredible assault on a hospital, which
Speaker 1: typically is under international law completely out of bounds. It's
Speaker 1: typically considered a war crime unless you have absolutely exceptional circumstances.
Speaker 1: So you'll recall the case that they made to the
Speaker 1: public of why it was that they needed to attack
Speaker 1: this hospital. They said, this is basically ham OSCA and central.
Speaker 1: They released computer generated image of all of the elaborate
Speaker 1: layer and tunnel system underneath of the hospital that they
Speaker 1: said was effectively operating as Hamas headquarters. They claimed there
Speaker 1: may be hostages there, They claimed that there may be
Speaker 1: a firefight from Hamas militants as they went into the hospital,
Speaker 1: and so in order to justify what would otherwise be
Speaker 1: a war crime, they've been trying to proffer some level
Speaker 1: of evidence to the public to justify this assault on
Speaker 1: the hospital, which again has already caused significant dozens of
Speaker 1: lives lost because of the starving of this hospital of
Speaker 1: fuel and then the raid on the hospital facility. So far,
Speaker 1: they have not turned up a lot of certainly not
Speaker 1: sufficient evidence, not a lot of evidence in general. We
Speaker 1: showed you in one of the shows last week the
Speaker 1: videos and the photos that they offered of guns that
Speaker 1: they claimed they found on the premises. We also have
Speaker 1: this put this up on the screen. This is sort
Speaker 1: of the latest development. They released this video and images
Speaker 1: of what they say is a tunnel that was used
Speaker 1: by Hamas militants on the property of the hospital. However,
Speaker 1: they say that they have not actually gone in the
Speaker 1: tunnel in order to find out where it goes or
Speaker 1: what may be inside. They say they're fearful of booby
Speaker 1: tr which is something they've encountered in Hamas tunnels in
Speaker 1: the past. I would just say number one, we should
Speaker 1: be incredibly skeptical because of a lot of the Israeli
Speaker 1: evidence that has been offered in the past that has
Speaker 1: fallen apart, especially when they say, oh, sorry journalists, you
Speaker 1: can't go in. Sorry, we haven't even been able to
Speaker 1: go in. And also additionally, because recalled the distance between
Speaker 1: the portrayal and the evidence that's being offered. Now, they
Speaker 1: said they knew exactly where the locations of these tunnels where.
Speaker 1: They issued graphical representation showing the different areas of the
Speaker 1: hospital complex that they said contained these Hamas tunnels and
Speaker 1: were being used as command centers, etc. So far and
Speaker 1: now we're multiple days in they have not shown anything
Speaker 1: that looks even close to what they were presenting this
Speaker 1: as and from an American perspective. Also important to remember,
Speaker 1: the day before this hospital raid, John Kirby, NSC spokesperson,
Speaker 1: basically went out to the public and said, oh, we
Speaker 1: have our own intelligence that backs up the Israeli claims. Again,
Speaker 1: so far, nothing approaching the case that they lay down
Speaker 1: has actually been proven. We've had pictures of ten or
Speaker 1: so guns and a box of dates in some WD
Speaker 1: forty and Furthermore, BBC actually caught them manipulating some of
Speaker 1: the evidence that they claimed to be using to prove
Speaker 1: that Hamas was using this hospital for military purposes, something
Speaker 1: that again the doctors who work at this hospital also denied.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at this BBC report of what
Speaker 1: they found.
Speaker 3: This IDF animation, posted in late October, claims to represent
Speaker 3: a Hamas tunnel system underneath the hospital, but having been
Speaker 3: inside Al Shifa since early Wednesday, Israel's yet to produce
Speaker 3: evidence of the tunnels. It has allowed the BBC and
Speaker 3: Fox News to film at the hospital, though only locations
Speaker 3: of Israel's choice. This is what they found. Israel also
Speaker 3: released its own seven minute video which BBC vera fire
Speaker 3: is analyzed. A watch visible in that video suggests it
Speaker 3: was filmed a few hours before the BBC arrived, and
Speaker 3: this IDF video was posted, then deleted, then reposted, this
Speaker 3: time without a section referring to an Israeli soldier who'd
Speaker 3: been held hostage. I don't know when this was used
Speaker 3: the last time. Also in the video, we see a
Speaker 3: room with an MRI machine and.
Speaker 1: If you zoom in and we get some light over here,
Speaker 1: what you will be able to see are is military equipment.
Speaker 3: The BBC was shown the same room, and what we
Speaker 3: see in the two videos doesn't precisely match. For example,
Speaker 3: there's one gun in the IDF video two by the
Speaker 3: time of the BBC footage. Israel has told BBC Verify
Speaker 3: this is because more weaponry and terrorist assets were discovered
Speaker 3: throughout the day and as always an AK forty seven.
Speaker 3: Israel also says its video is a single shot with
Speaker 3: no edits, but this appears to be an edit. We
Speaker 3: don't know the reasons for that edit nor how significant
Speaker 3: it is. The IDF, THOUGHPE says suggestions it's manipulating the
Speaker 3: media are incorrect. The IDF video also shows military equipment
Speaker 3: in other locations that we can't verify how it came
Speaker 3: to be there, and what we see in this IDF
Speaker 3: video doesn't equate to Israel's description of Al Shifa as
Speaker 3: an operational command center for hamas the US is using
Speaker 3: a different phrase saying Al Shifa was used as a
Speaker 3: command and control node that implies a much smaller facility.
Speaker 3: Israel is adamant this hospital was a command center, but
Speaker 3: for now at least, it's either not found supporting evidence
Speaker 3: or it's not sharing it.
Speaker 1: You'll remember too, this was the video that originally was
Speaker 1: put up, as evidenced by the IDF that it was
Speaker 1: taken down for a time, then it was edited and
Speaker 1: re uploaded. This was the video, as they point out,
Speaker 1: that supposedly had no edits whatsoever. All they catch them
Speaker 1: making it edit. And then they also catch, you know,
Speaker 1: the number of guns changing in this location where they claimed, oh,
Speaker 1: this is just what we found there, and you know,
Speaker 1: they made a variety of excuses for that, so so far,
Speaker 1: and even you know, Western media outlets like the New
Speaker 1: York Times reporting that this evidence falls far short of
Speaker 1: what they claimed in going in originally to Al Shifa
Speaker 1: and again stakes here obviously incredibly high. For the human
Speaker 1: beings who, you know, dozens of whom have already lost
Speaker 1: their lives at this hospital, the doctors who have been
Speaker 1: operating in unimaginable circumstances doing their best to preserve as
Speaker 1: much life as they possibly can, the thousands of people
Speaker 1: who had sheltered here, the hundreds of patients who had
Speaker 1: been trying to seek care, trying to survive through all
Speaker 1: of this. And if you target a hospital without extraordinary
Speaker 1: circumstances of it being used aggressively for a central military purpose,
Speaker 1: that is a war crime. So that's why evaluating this
Speaker 1: evidence and understanding what happens here so incredibly important. So
Speaker 1: in addition, you now have a shifting narrative from the
Speaker 1: Israelis about exactly what they expected to find at the hospital.
Speaker 1: We brought you some of this in the show last week.
Speaker 1: Going in, it was, you know, Helma's HQ. Then suddenly
Speaker 1: after they went in, it was, well, we didn't really
Speaker 1: expect to find the hostages there. Of course, Hamas fled
Speaker 1: before we showed up. Of course they brought a lot
Speaker 1: of what they had there with them, and now they
Speaker 1: are actively and aggressively targeting the very area of Gaza
Speaker 1: that they had told people to flee to. Remember, millions
Speaker 1: of people have already been forcibly displaced in Gaza. One
Speaker 1: out of fifty six residents of Gaza has already been
Speaker 1: killed or injured. And they told people that you have
Speaker 1: to leave the north, you have to go to the south,
Speaker 1: otherwise you're going to be considered a terrorist and you're
Speaker 1: going to be subject to attack. But guess what, the
Speaker 1: south is not safe, and in fact attacks on the
Speaker 1: south have ramped up since they have told people to
Speaker 1: flee to that part of the Gaza strip. So go
Speaker 1: ahead and put this up on the screen. This is
Speaker 1: a catch from Matt Binder. You can see on one
Speaker 1: graphic you've got them the IDF saying, oh, of course
Speaker 1: hamas Hq is under al Shifa. And now you have
Speaker 1: a former Israeli Prime minister saying, well, actually hamas Hq
Speaker 1: now is in Conunis, which is a city in the
Speaker 1: southern part of Gaza, where many people went and fled to.
Speaker 1: So now we have at least twenty six Palestinians just
Speaker 1: now killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential neighbor
Speaker 1: in Conunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. This is according
Speaker 1: to Al Jazeera. You can see this reporting up on
Speaker 1: the screen. So they've now moved on from Gaza City
Speaker 1: is basically completely obliterated. There is nothing left there effectively
Speaker 1: to go back to the majority of homes, residential buildings, schools,
Speaker 1: apartment buildings, mosques, church, hospitals, etc. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just rubble. There's nothing left. And so what they
Speaker 1: told people is okay, you leave there and go to
Speaker 1: the south and you'll be safe. And one of the
Speaker 1: places people fled to is communists and now it's coming
Speaker 1: under aggressive attack. But that is not the only place.
Speaker 1: Put this up on the screen from NPR. Their report
Speaker 1: here quantifies just how it's not that the south has
Speaker 1: you know, consistently been struck. It's actually the attacks on
Speaker 1: the south, southern part of the Gaza Strip, where people
Speaker 1: were told to move to, have escalated since they told
Speaker 1: people to leave the north. They're actually hitting the places
Speaker 1: that they fled to harder after people moved out of
Speaker 1: the north. So they say Israel told Palestinians to evacuate
Speaker 1: to southern Gaza and stepped up attacks there. Families have
Speaker 1: risk journeys through the blasted landscape of destroyed buildings and
Speaker 1: corpses along the road that Israel is designated as a
Speaker 1: humanitarian corridor through the war. For the few hours each
Speaker 1: day that the road is open, people carry or drag
Speaker 1: wounded loved ones. They push wheelchairs with patients just down
Speaker 1: of surgery, and hospitals have now stopped working. Mothers pull
Speaker 1: along weary children who look around with blank fearful stairs.
Speaker 1: But what awaits Palestinians who move south is still life threatening.
Speaker 1: The evacuation areas are both heavily bombarded and in a
Speaker 1: dire humanitarian crisis, as Israel's blockade of fuel and control
Speaker 1: of aid into the Gaza Strip leaves people searching for
Speaker 1: food and access to clean water. They're underscoring there the
Speaker 1: horrific humanitarian situation for everyone in the Gaza Strip, the
Speaker 1: fact that there is wildly insufficient food, wildly insufficient water,
Speaker 1: basically no fuel whatsoever, has created an absolute humanitarian catastrophe,
Speaker 1: with diseases spreading rampantly and people desperately just trying to
Speaker 1: find the next meal enough to feed and keep them
Speaker 1: and their families alive. They go on to say Israel's
Speaker 1: use of the term evacuation. For sending Palestinians to southern
Speaker 1: areas is really probably because it conjures up an idea
Speaker 1: of a safe route to a place of safety. This,
Speaker 1: according to Caitlin Proctor, research fell at the Center on
Speaker 1: Conflict Development and Peace Building at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
Speaker 1: But the reality is there is no safe place left
Speaker 1: in Gaza for people to go, and so that's where
Speaker 1: we are today. We have horrors that unfolded at Alshifa Hospital,
Speaker 1: horrors that unfolded at this un run school within a
Speaker 1: refugee camp, and now horrors unfolding in southern Gaza where
Speaker 1: people thought perhaps they may be safe. Already millions forcibly
Speaker 1: displaced from their homes. And of course all of this
Speaker 1: calls into question what is the future of the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to go back to in Gaza City. It
Speaker 1: has effectively been turned into rubble. The meme of the
Speaker 1: parking lot, you know, just obliterate it. All that's effectively
Speaker 1: been done already in Gaza City. And as I said before,
Speaker 1: the toll on the population here is unfathomable. One in
Speaker 1: fifty six, one in fifty six. Think about that, Palestinians
Speaker 1: in Gaza, already killed or wounded, and now the vice
Speaker 1: grip of the IDF tightening around even the southern part
Speaker 1: of Gaza and raising the question of what is the
Speaker 1: future for these people anywhere. We've of course tracked closely
Speaker 1: here the statements of Israeli officials about how their ideal
Speaker 1: solution would be to push them out of the Gaza
Speaker 1: strip altogether. There's another report this morning that they're hoping
Speaker 1: Egypt will just take over completely and again effectively displace
Speaker 1: these people permanently from their homes once again. But twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, as one Israeli security Cabinet member put it,
Speaker 1: and that is the state of affairs that we are
Speaker 1: looking at today. We'll be back on Monday. We'll be tracking,
Speaker 1: of course, everything that unfolds under the weekend. Over the weekend,
Speaker 1: we've already got a bunch of updates we want to
Speaker 1: bring you on Monday as well, So everybody enjoy your
Speaker 1: weekend and we will see you soon.