Fact sheet: Gaza’s hospitals and ambulances – and Hamas’ exploitation of them

Below is a current update on the reality of the situation with respect to the hospitals of Gaza – including the well-documented evidence and history of Hamas’ use of hospitals and ambulances for terrorist purposes. These practices remove their protected status under International Humanitarian Law, allowing the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to strike these targets, though of course while continuing to seek to minimise harm to civilians within the laws of “proportionality” and while adhering to other relevant rules.

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Are you a “Fascifist”?

You are not a humanitarian, however, if your response to this horrendous carnage is to call for a ceasefire rather than an Israeli victory and the destruction of Hamas’ military capabilities – you are a fascifist, no matter how well-intentioned.

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AIJAC disappointed by FM Penny Wong’s comments regarding a Gaza ceasefire

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) today expressed disappointment over Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong’s comments on ABC-TV’s “The Insiders” regarding Gaza this morning, saying they were “disturbing”. Senator Wong stated: “we all want to take the next steps towards a ceasefire” before adding no ceasefire could be “one-sided.”  She also called for Israel…

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AIJAC statement on the events in Caulfield South on the evening of November 10

Regarding the events that took place around Prince Park in Caulfield South, opposite the Central Shule Chabad Synagogue on Maple St,  on the evening of November 10, the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council’s Executive Director Dr Colin Rubenstein said: “While we welcome the bipartisan statements in support of the Jewish community and condemnation of the incidents…

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The media, Palestinian children and the numbers game

The stories of children being killed in Gaza are indeed horrifically sad and tragic – even if we actually have no accurate numbers on the extent of this tragedy – and to some extent, it is understandable that journalists want to highlight these terrible stories. Unfortunately, the goal of at least some journalists appears to be primarily to draw some nonexistent moral equivalence between those Palestinians under 18 killed during legitimate Israeli military operations with the Israeli children brutally murdered or kidnapped by Hamas.

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