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How do you target an ambulance? (UPDATED) [1]
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Date: 2023-11-03
This year, my dad became technically, officially, an epileptic.
He’d had a seizure years before. This year, though, they re-emerged, and once you have two, that’s it. You’re officially designated as an epileptic, someone prone to seizures.
He’s had three this year alone.
This last time was bad. Earlier that night, according to my mom, he’d lost his balance and hit his head on the corner of the nightstand. Later, in the very early hours of the morning, he began to seize.
Because of the double risk, the previous injury that could have set things in motion, the EMTs had to take my dad into the hospital. They loaded him onto a transfer gurney and took him by ambulance to emergency.
I cannot even imagine there being even more risk on his way to the hospital. In this country, what’s the worst that could happen? A freak accident. A pole falling on the vehicle. A lightning strike. I mean, something just completely random and unforeseeable.
I cannot imagine someone deliberately targeting an ambulance.
People inside ambulances are ill and perhaps dying. The technicians who accompany the patients are experts with years of training. They’re indispensable to their community. Everything aboard an ambulance is valuable.
Israel has owned up to targeting an ambulance.
I have no doubt that this could have been avoided. Some may think this point is beyond argument, but I do not, and I think it explains a lot. This streak began with the strike on Al-Ahly Hospital, way back on October 11. That was only four days into the relentless bombings and strikes that Israel had begun raining down on the Gaza Strip. (We’re now at Day 27.)
I happen to think that the evidence is still out on who was responsible for that strike, and there is a good deal of evidence to that effect, that the responsible party is still undetermined. I think most people would agree that an independent investigation needs to be conducted.
But my point here is this, and this is a personal opinion: what Israel learned in how the media reports shook out, at least in the Western press, is that they came away with nary a scratch.
After the Al-Ahly Hospital strike, there was a strike near Al-Quds Hospital. The problem was that, for American readers, that sounded like the same hospital and they were disinclined to believe that the strike near Al-Quds had even happened. Such is the power of doubt.
I believe Israel became emboldened. They increased their persecution of Palestinians. They threatened more hospitals. They struck schools. They struck refugee camps.
Now they’re owning up to the striking of ambulances, transports for the sick and the dying.
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but Israel is the one creating most of the sick and the dying at this moment in Gaza.
I can’t be the only one who’s noticed this. I can’t be the only one who’s put together the fact that Israel is starving people, driving them dry with thirst, forcing them to flee while still bombing them, pursuing them into their shelters, and destroying the only places that can patch these people back together.
They mean to leave the Palestinians no quarter. Surely other people see this!
Who strikes an ambulance? Tell me.
Who does such a thing?
UPDATE: Video from BBC News was extracted from being a text link so as to quell and/or satisfy some of the commentary below.
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