On today’s episode of The Editors, recorded earlier this morning, I lamented the extent to which Western media outlets treat the Gaza Health Ministry as though it were a reliable narrator and credulously regurgitate the narratives it promotes. The institution is not to be trusted for many reasons, but one that I singled out was its tendency to promote the narrative that Israel is responsible for all civilian deaths during periods of conflict in Gaza when many of those civilian deaths are attributable to rockets launched from inside Gaza that fall short of their targets. Not hours later, that is precisely what happened – at least, according to Israeli security services.
On Tuesday, Western phones received breaking news alerts, attributable to what the New York Times called the “Palestinian Health Ministry,” that revealed an Israeli missile strike had targeted a Gaza hospital, producing hundreds of civilian casualties. The Israeli attack on the Al Ahli Arab Hospital contributes to what the Gaza Health Ministry claims are the already thousands of civilian casualties attributable to indiscriminate Israeli fire.
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