During a United Nations Security Council meeting this week, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield launched a full-throated condemnation of Russiaās bombing of Ukraineās largest childrenās hospital on Monday. The attack was a part of a Russian bombing campaign that killed more than 30 Ukrainian civilians.
āWeāre here today because Russia ā¦ attacked a childrenās hospital,ā Thomas-Greenfield said. āEven uttering that phrase sends a chill down my spine.ā
Thomas-Greenfield went on to list a string of Russian attacks on other Ukrainian hospitals throughout the war. She described Russiaās aggression as a ācampaign of terrorā and labeled its attacks on civilian infrastructure as violations of international law. Representatives of other countries, such as the United Kingdom and France, echoed Thomas-Greenfieldās denunciations. (Russiaās ambassador denied responsibility for the Monday bombing.)
āIām very glad the U.S. is coming out and so vocally condemning all of those actions,ā said Jessica Peake, an international law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, referring to Thomas-Greenfieldās comments toward Russia. āBut at the same time, we donāt get any language anywhere near as strong as that when weāre talking about Palestinian hospitals, or Palestinian schools, or Palestinian children.ā
Ukraine doesnāt have combatants using their hospitals as bunkers.
Hamas does use hospitals as bunkers for their combatants. This is actually a war crime. The reason itās a war crime to station combatants in a hospital is because it makes the hospital a valid military target, which is bad for the civilian population.
But Hamas doesnāt give a shit about the civilian population and puts their combatants in hospitals anyway. The goal is propaganda so they can get donations and the people that only want to hear one side of the story arenāt going to care about ālittle detailsā about Hamas war crimes. The leaders of Hamas living in Qatar are actual billionaires because theyāve monetized the suffering of Palestinians. But then so has TikTok, and this intercept site linked above which is making emotional pleas to get in on the donation action.
Grifting off of Palestinian suffering is getting to be a big business now.
Israel uses hospitals as bases and bunkers not Hamas.