Comment on BBC tours hospital Israel says sits above Hezbollah gold
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not sure what the point of all this is? As if gold was going to be stacked in a broom cupboard or something.
If the bunker is real the entrance is going to be under a dusty mat at the back of an office under a pile of chairs. Not a door off corridor B.
If it’s made up, not sure what Israel gains from that particular lie since it’s so easy for the likes of BBC to put out a video like the above.
Destroying the hospital destroys vital services in Lebanon’s capitol city. A nation - especially one that is already struggling after years of economic crisis and national disasters - that has its healthcare system under attack is a destabilized nation.
If people are fleeing and not united, they cannot support a government, and the government cannot fight against an unlawful invasion.
They haven’t destroyed the hospital though?
Not yet. But their intentions are clear.
Not this one, but they’ve destroyed others under the same “suspicions”
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The BBC had full access to the hospital. They were able to wherever they wanted.
Israel gains the ability to terroize people in hospitals under the guise of a military target by lying.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It just seems like an odd thing to claim. If it were true it gives Hezbollah notice to move it all somewhere else (which, let’s be neutral, may have happened). If it’s a complete lie, it doesn’t justify bombing a hospital and you just end with journalists like the BBC walking around saying “no there isn’t”.
So either way it just seems like an odd announcement to make.
zbyte64@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
It’s not odd if you want to cause a mass migration of people to brake the front lines.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Personally, I would have claimed Hezbollah were using it as a HQ / meeting place. Because there is no physical evidence of that, and it’s far more likely to be taken by people to be a warning of bombing. Which would have the panic effect you mention.
Claiming there’s a pile of gold there is just strange. A) it’s quite easy to show there isn’t (assuming Hezbollah haven’t just moved it already) and b) it’s not really a warning of bombing. One would expect Israel to drop special forces in and confiscate the gold, not blow it up…