EXPLAINER: 5 Facts You Need to Know About the Israel-Gaza Conflict

1. Gaza Has Spent Millions on Terror Rockets But Has No Money for Vaccines or Education

Israel came under fire for not providing the Palestinians with vaccines (never mind that it doesn’t have any legal responsibility to and never mind that despite that, it did send vaccinations).

To date, more than 3,800 rockets have been launched at Israeli cities in just over a week. Several hundred were the long-range, far more expensive rockets. This is aside from the hundreds of millions of dollars spent building subterranean cross-border tunnels to smuggle terrorists and weapons into Israel. But let’s not forget that, at least when it comes to the rockets, Iran is footing the bill and pays for and delivers all of Hamas’s rockets.

Israel, and not Hamas, is blamed for Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. In fact, the electricity cut this week was caused by a Hamas rocket that misfired. Of course, people – such as Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib – blamed that one on Israel.

Luckily, the Biden administration has resumed funding for UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, despite the fact that UNRWA promotes violence against Israelis and that its schools – by the U.N.’s own admission – have been used as weapons caches and as launching pads for Hamas rockets.
           
2. Everyone Talks About the Disproportionate Numbers of Dead. Everyone Forgets to Mention the Small Fact That Most are Terrorists

The mainstream media, including The New York Times, CNN, and the BBC, all draw attention to the fact 200 Palestinians have been killed over the past nine days of violence while Israel has only seen 12 deaths. Most conveniently omit the fact the vast majority of those killed are terrorists from the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups.

Even those civilian casualties that did occur as a result of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strikes could have easily been avoided if Hamas didn’t choose to turn their own citizens into human shields by operating from densely populated areas as well as hospitals, schools, and most recently, a 13-story building that housed the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera.
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While AP criticized Israel, saying, “We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building,” a former White House national security official under Obama said the building was long known as a Hamas operational center and that people who worked there knew that. A former AP editor also said Hamas operated from within the building.
Many of the rest, including several children, were killed by the 460 rockets which terrorists misfired and that fell short, landing within Gaza.