U.S. Central Command's Post Praising Israel's 'Successful' Hostage Rescue Shows There Are No Limits to the Gaza Genocide
The next time the Biden administration talks about humanitarian aid, this statement should be remembered
The U.S. Central Command congratulated Israel over its “successful” hostage rescue operation on Saturday that managed to save four Israelis at the expense of three killed hostages, 297 dead Palestinians and another 700 injured.
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“We commend the work of the Israeli security services that conducted this daring operation,” the statement read. “The United States is supporting all efforts to secure the release of hostages still held by Hamas, including American citizens. This includes through ongoing negotiations or other means.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has been called the true Israeli foreign minister, did not mention the death toll in his post: “I welcome the rescue of four hostages who have now been reunited with their families. We will not rest until every hostage is returned home.”
Images from central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp were horrific and the hospitals in the area have been likened to “slaughterhouses.”
Democracy for the Arab World Now called for an investigation into the raid and noted that three hostages were killed, including a U.S. citizen.
“By providing intelligence and logistics support for this operation, the Biden administration has now made the US a party to this conflict and placed US forces at risk for attack as legitimate military targets,” Sarah Leah Whitson, Dawn’s executive director, said in a statement.
CENTCOM tried to reject claims that the humanitarian pier was used by Israelis to carry out the bloodbath.
“An area south of the facility was used by the Israelis to safely return the hostages to Israel. Any such claim to the contrary is false. The temporary pier on the coast of Gaza was put in place for one purpose only, to help move additional, urgently needed lifesaving assistance into Gaza,” the statement read.
Afshin Rattansi, a journalist, posted video claiming to show Israel using the U.S.-built ‘humanitarian pier’ to “sneak in a unit of Israeli soldiers, and reportedly American soldiers.”
“The soldiers boarded a humanitarian aid truck and drove to Nuseirat refugee camp. Once inside, they were discovered by Palestinians, which resulted in nonstop Israeli aerial bombardment and the soldiers opening fire inside the central market, killing over 210 Palestinians and injuring hundreds. The ‘humanitarian pier’ gets exposed to be an occupation, assassination, and massacre pier,” he posted.
The State Department did not respond to an email inquiry from The Trends Journal.
Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, posted on X that the “U.S./Israeli hostage rescue operation was a massive violation of the Law of War, especially as it pertains to the issue of proportionality.”
“There is no legal jurisdiction that would certify a claim that rescuing four hostages is worth 200-plus civilians,” he posted. “Even the Israeli Supreme Court agrees this outcome is a gross violation of the principle of proportionality—as it set out in a 2004 decision. The question now is whether the ICC will have the moral integrity to set forth an additional indictment against Israel, and an indictment against the U.S. Don’t hold your breath.”
Ritter said in any normal society, “this operation would be classified as a failure, and investigations launched.”
“In Zionist Israel, they are celebrating. A question for Biden: what role did the U.S. military/intelligence community play in facilitating the murder of an American citizen at the hands of the IDF. And is it acceptable practice for the U.S. to support military operations that kill hundreds of civilians to recover hostages whose release could have been secured simply by implementing a viable ceasefire?”
Max Blumenthal, a journalist at The GreyZone, cited a post on X from a worker at Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor who said an “aid truck stopped, it was full of clothes & cutlery,” but then 10 IDF soldiers exited the truck & sprayed him with 3 bullets, then Israel began to intensely bomb the area with "fire belts" (i.e. simultaneously dropping a large amount of bombs indiscriminately).”
Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of HRW and a visiting professor at Princeton University, spoke to Al Jazeera and said “there are certain conclusions that we can reach. For example, the Israeli military said that it deliberately launched this rescue operation during the day, hoping to surprise Hamas. Hamas would have expected it to come at night. The one problem with operating during the day is that civilians are all about. And some of the bombs clearly fell either on or right adjacent to a market in al-Nuseirat which was filled with people. And in those circumstance, you predictably will get larger numbers of civilian casualties than if it had been a night-time operation. That is inconsistent with the duty to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians harm.”
you forfeit the right to have "noncombatant" status when you let hamas build weapons caches and hold hostages in a school or hospital. hamas isnt ruling their territory against the protest of a civilian population, they are supported by the vast majority of residents who consider it an honor for them or their children to die fighting Jews. For adults the goal is to take as many Jews with yoi as you can and for children the goal is to generate bad publicity for israel when they are maimed or killed. it is hamas hiding behind human shields and israel is right to refuse to negotiate with terrorists. that only encourages more taking of hostages and use of human shield tactics, and netanyahu is apparently the only world leader who recognizes this fact
i call BS. no one in their right mind believes this nonsense. miraculously 4 isn'treal "hostages" are found and recovered. anyone who believes this needs a read of the emperors new clothes.