This is the most obscene lie in this whole depraved saga and it's just been revealed for what it is.

It was used to justify a grave, grave war crime and it should have been very clearly accepted as a lie from the start as indeed many of us saw it as such.

Now I realize that Israel's onslaught is one overarching moral obscenity,

but we can't lose sight of the specific war crimes which are being committed.

Al-Shiva Hospital suffered a huge military assault.

A new evidence is conclusive. The basis for this hideous attack was a lie. Now let's just start the beginning.

Al-Shifa is the biggest hospital in Gaza. It was built in 1946

when Palestine was still under British colonial rule.

In the midst of Israel's assault and Gaza, which has now

killed well over 20,000 people and injured over 50,000 others, such a hospital

clearly plays a pivotal role. Whether it functions is a matter of life and death on a grand scale.

Not just for those injured by missiles, but keep in mind say the 50,000 women who are pregnant

with 180 women a day giving birth or indeed people with cancer or serious

underlying medical health conditions.

But the Israeli Defence Forces declared in October that Al-Shifa Hospital was, and I I quote the main headquarters for Hamas's terrorist activity.

Terrorism they added does not belong in a hospital and the IDF will operate to uncover any terrorist infrastructure.

They then released a mocked up video seemingly detailing a huge labyrinth

series of tunnels as well as Hamas meeting rooms.

They also declared that Hamas's continued

military use of the chief of a hospital jeopardized the hospital's

protected status under international law. That's because as you probably can

guess not being an international lawyer, you can't actually just attack hospitals. That is a war crime.

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