9.20 What About those Pictures of Bombed Out Gaza?
The following video shows damage to the Jabaliya refugee camp after it was bombed by Israel and the large bombs that Israel dropped.
Why did Israel bomb a refugee camp? That question was asked of Colonel Conricus of the Israeli Defense Forces in the video below.
The Jabaliya refugee campus had Hamas command and control and Hamas tunnels below it. Israel dropped four bunker buster bombs to destroy those tunnels. This created an earthquake which caused the damage above ground. Hamas launched rockets at Israeli children from Jabaliya. Why didn't Israeli soldiers simply walk into Jabaliya and look for the tunnel entrances and enter them and kill the Hamas terrorists? Israel often has sent in troops instead of bombing and many have lost their lives as a result. Hamas had cameras that spotted the Israelis and remote control bombs that blew them up. Often the bombs were hidden in buildings so that the buildings would collapse on the Israeli soldiers. Hamas also had hidden exits from their tunnels from which they would emerge, shoot Israelis, and disappear. Why did Hamas build these tunnels? They were preparing for Israeli soldiers entering Gaza. They knew that after an attack like the one of October 7, Israel would send troops in. They wanted the Israeli troops who came in to be killed.
We see a lot of pictures of bombed out areas in Gaza but we don't often see the Israeli homes hit by Hamas rockets.

Apartment struck in Rishon Le Zion, Israel

Home damaged by rocket in Sderot Israel

Living under constant rocket fire results in people dying and the people who survive are victims to. This picture is after an attack on Southern Israel.

While Hamas was shooting rockets in the south of Israel Hezbollah was shooting them in the north. One of Hezbollah's rockets killed children while they were playing soccer in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in Northern Israel.

Hezbollah rockets and shells have turned the Israeli town of Metullah into a ghost town.
There have been many more Israeli buildings hit by Hamas, Hezbollah, Yemen and Iranian rockets. Many more would have been hit if it wasn't for Israel's iron dome defense systems.
On October 7, 2023, thousands of terrorists and civilians from Gaza invaded Israel and massacred Jewish communities. The pictures of what they did are too horrific to include here. Many Israeli children were killed by Hamas and many were taken hostage. Here is a picture of some of the children that were abducted from their homes to the hell of imprisonment in Gaza.

The baby on the top left was Kfir Bibas who was murdered by Hamas in Gaza after being taken hostage.
Hamas called their massacre of Israelis Al Aqsa Flood, which they named after the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. After the gruesome October 7 attack on Israel, Hamas promised that they would carry out more attacks like that. The picture below is of a Hamas official Ghazi Hamad saying that Hamas would repeat the attacks. If you click on the picture you can see a video of him saying that.
The October 7, attack on Israel led to a decision by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, to eliminate Hamas so that it would never happen again.
Netanyahu explained many times about why it is necessary for Israel to eliminate Hamas or at least to disarm them. In the video below he talks about it after Hamas terrorists killed Israelis in Jerusalem. Hamas will keep killing Israeli civilians as long as it exists.
Israel is surrounded by enemies who want to destroy her and has to defend herself. Egypt and Syria are building up large armies meant to destroy Israel.
Israel is often accused of overreacting to the attacks by Hamas. In the video below a young Irish woman asks an Israeli why Israel didn't just fight Hamas in the the Hamas tunnels instead of bombing Gaza.
Hamas and Hamas supporters accuse Israel over and over again of killing Gazan children. Hamas knows that they can turn people against Israel if they can show pictures of starving children or tell the world that a lot of children were killed when Israel drops bombs. Hamas doesn't care about children. On October 7 they murdered every Israeli child they could other than the ones they took hostage. Hamas kept baby food in warehouses that could have gone to the children of Gaza. Israel does everything it can to avoid killing Gazan children while at the same time eliminating Hamas. Prior to bombing areas where Hamas is located Israel drops leaflets and makes phone calls warning residents to leave an area. You can see a video of leaflets being dropped from the sky here.
Hamas claims that Israel is killing children but Hamas doesn't let those children leave when Israel warns that it will bomb an area. Hamas doesn't care about Arab children and just sees them as a useful tool with which to drum up hatred of Israel. Here is an example of an AI (artificial intelligence) image of a baby in the rubble that Hamas used to get people to hate Israel

Close examination of the hands and forehead show distortions that AI images created in the hand and forehead of the baby.
Many of the accusations against Israel are false propaganda made to get the world to hate Israel. There are some famous cases of this such as when a rocket Islamic Jihad fired at Israel landed in the parking lot of a Gazan hospital and Hamas accused Israel of bombing the hospital. Headlines all over the world said that Israel bombed that hospital. More evidence of this came up when the web site X.com (formerly known as twitter) added a “About this Account” feature in November 2025, which displays the country of origin of a post. The new X feature ripped mask off countless fake "Gazan" accounts. Some chap claiming to be in Gaza posted from Pakistan, another from London. Another manipulative abuser somewhere else. All claiming to be suffering in Gaza while in the comfort of some coffee shop far away. BBC quoted Motasem A Dalloul countless times in various news articles about the Israel-Hamas War as an “eyewitness” even though he was in Poland. One of the most outspoken "Palestinian" accounts who raised money for her "starving family in Gaza" is based in India. Here is a picture posted by that account.

People are making money by pretending they are victims of the Israelis. Here is another phony "Gazan" post, this one from Qatar.

You can read more about this in a post by Eyal Yakobi with the title: "BREAKING: Thousands of “Palestinian” accounts posting daily about “starvation in Gaza” and “Israeli crimes” aren’t based in Gaza." There is a very good video about how Hamas posts fake videos of child victims to demonize Israel.
There are a lot of propaganda postings about brutal Israeli soldiers opening fire on unarmed Palestinian civilians. Reality is that many of the Arabs living in Gaza want the Israelis to stay in Gaza and free them from Hamas. Most of the time they are too afraid to say it because they know Hamas will kill them if they do. However some of them told Israel's channel 12 what they really think. Here is an excerpt.
Woman 1: The Israeli people, everything good comes from you.
Woman 2: “May God settle the score with Hamas. May God take
revenge on Hamas. They destroyed our lives, our children’s lives. They
destroyed our houses; we used to have a life. We want you to rule here. We
don’t want Hamas. The whole nation hates Hamas. They’ve hurt all of us.”
Man 1: “You know the whole world is against Israel, The world
says Israel destroyed Gaza. No, you’re the humane ones, not them. You bring in
food and they steal it. They sell it.”
One might ask why Israel doesn't just build a wall around Gaza to keep out Hamas so that it doesn't have to bomb Hamas. Israel did build a wall. It built a high tech wall with cameras and remote control guns. Hamas blew up those cameras and machine guns with drones. Hamas shot rockets over the wall. Hamas terrorists flew over the wall with motorized paragliders. While Israelis danced at the Nova festival not knowing they were about to be killed you can see the Hamas terrorists flying toward the dance festival in the video below.
In addition to flying over the wall Hamas blew up sections of the wall, poured through those holes into Israel and massacred Israeli families, men women children and their pets. In the case of the Bibas family they abducted the Bibas children and their mother and killed their father and their dog Tonto. There is no reason to think that another wall will save Israeli children in the future. The only way to save those children is to get rid of Hamas.

One of the reasons Israel went to war with Hamas was to save the hostages but sadly in the case of the Bibas children they couldn't. Netanyahu says in the video below that nothing will stop him from bringing the murderers of Israeli hostages to justice.
Arab propagandists say that the October 7 attacks occurred because Israel is occupying Palestinian land. Israel uprooted all Jews in 1995 from Gaza. There was no occupation of Gaza but that did not bring peace. Arabs also say that Israel should withdraw from Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank) but if Israel did that Israel would become only 10 miles wide and unable to defend itself from the Arab armies that would build up in Judea and Samaria. There are many Arabs who say all the Jews in Israel should go back to Europe since many of the Jews who are in the modern state of Israel came from Europe and Russia. Jews had been exiled to Europe and Russia by previous Muslim invasions and occupations of Israel. Europeans who invaded also exiled Jews. The modern state of Israel came into being because of widespread anti-semitism in Europe and Russia toward those exiled Jews. Theodore Herzl after witnessing the persecution of his fellow Jews suggested that there be a Jewish state where Jews would not be persecuted. He suggested that Jews return from exile to their historic land, a land they lived in thousands of years before the first Islamic invasion. In fact despite persecution by Arabs and invaders such as the Ottomans, there were Jews who didn't flee and continued to live in Israel. Going back to Europe as Arab propagandists demand would mean going back to discrimination and persecution. Antisemitism is exploding in Europe and all over the world.
There are Arab propagandists who say that it's not fair that the Palestinians suffer because of what the Europeans did to the Jews but Jews living in Israel does not mean that Arabs have to suffer. In fact Arabs living in Israel are better off than Arabs living in most of the Arab world. Arabs and their supporters worldwide chant "From the river to the sea Palestine will be free." All of Israel is between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean sea. That chant means Israel will be destroyed. The only thing that would free the Arabs living in Gaza would be eliminating the Hamas terrorist organization that controls them and oppresses them. Christian and Druze Arabs who lived in Arab dictatorships that surround Israel have been rescued from Muslim Arabs by Israel and given a home in Israel.
One of the arguments against Israel is that it is likely that the number of Arab children who have died as a result of Israel trying to eliminate Hamas, is a lot greater than the number of children Hamas killed on October 7, 2023. What people don't realize is that Hamas would have killed many more children if the Israeli Defense Forces hadn't stopped them. They don't also think about the fact that if the Arab world can it will kill everyone in Israel. Israel can't afford to let that happen which means Israel cannot allow its terrorist neighbors Hamas and Hezbollah to become powerful enough so that together with countries that surround Israel such as Egypt, Iran, Syria and Lebanon, they can achieve their goal of destroying Israel. If they do millions of Israeli children would die.
If Israel wants to protect its own children it has no choice but to eliminate Hamas even though there is no way to do that without some Arab children dying. Israel can do its best to minimize those deaths but it can't prevent all of them especially because Hamas prevents civilians from fleeing from combat areas. If Hamas hadn't attacked on October 7, 2023 no children, Israeli or Arab would have died. If Hamas were to lay down its weapons there would be peace and no children would be dying but Hamas has no intention of doing that even though it promised to do that as part of a ceasefire agreement. Hamas made that promise, got Israel to withdraw from areas of Gaza and then said it won't honor that promise. Hamas believes it is their obligation as Muslims to destroy Israel. Their 1988 charter says that and their leaders call for the annihilation of Israel. Hamas called its invasion of Israel Al Aqsa flood after the Al Aqsa mosque for religious reasons. The religious beliefs of Hamas are why it is so impossible to make peace with them. Hamas believes it is their religious obligation not to disarm. Only by disarming or eliminating Hamas is there a chance that Israel can bring a lasting peace to both Arab and Israeli children and adults as well. There is a ceasefire as of this writing (December 2025) in Gaza. Israel's goal of eliminating or disarming Hamas has not been met, Hamas is replenishing its ranks and going after other Gazan militias. Sadly Hamas ambushed and killed the leaders of a militia that wanted peace with Israel. Hamas is only one Islamic terrorist groups. As long as Muslim terrorists exist they will kill Jews. The attack on Bondi Beach in Australia is a recent example.
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The amazing thing is how successful Israel was in avoiding civilian casualties.

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