Doctors Without Borders issued a press release on November 21:
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified by the killing of two of our doctors, Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr. Ahmad Al Sahar, and another doctor, Dr. Ziad Al-Tatari, following a strike on Al Awda Hospital, which is one of the last remaining functional hospitals in northern Gaza.
A fourth person was killed as well.
MSF was careful to word the statement as not to blame either Israel or Hamas - but the media was not so careful.Time magazine blamed an "Israeli bombardment." Democracy Now called it an "Israeli airstrike." AP reported, "The director of al-Awda hospital, Ahmed Mahna, blamed the strike on Israel."
The Cradle said,
On 21 November, Israel killed two MSF doctors, Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Ahmad Al-Sahar, in an airstrike on the Al-Awda Hospital. Other medical staff, including MSF staff, were also severely injured. MSF had shared the GPS coordinates of their staff with Israeli authorities the same day.Socialist and Arab sites all unanimously blamed Israel.
I found video footage of the damage to the hospital taken by Al Jazeera several days after the incident, The damage seen is certainly not consistent with the damage one sees from Israeli airstrikes.
Israeli airstrikes cause much more damage than this.
These all look consistent with Hamas or Islamic Jihad rockets that hit buildings in Israel. It seems fairly certain that a Gaza rocket hit the hospital.
We can even see the signature pattern of the shrapnel that Gaza terror groups place in their rockets to maximize damage over a larger distance.
Here's the full Al Jazeera video.
There have been other similar fatal incidents where no one seems to have take out their phones and taken video at the time. Chances are pretty good that the remains of the rocket were in the hospital and Hamas removed them before the Al Jazeera did their report, three full days later.
How many other fatal incidents in Gaza were from Gaza groups themselves? The Al Ahli Hospital incident already proves that hundreds of reported fatalities that are blamed on Israel are either from Gaza rockets or fictional. But the media has not learned anything - or it is actively and knowingly spreading libels.
