the hypocrisy is off the chart;

On Thursday morning, Iranian missiles struck Soroka hospital in Beersheba, triggering expressions of outrage from Israeli officials.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir likened the Iranian regime to “Nazis who fire missiles at hospitals, the elderly and children”. President Isaac Herzog evoked imagery of a baby in intensive care and a doctor rushing between beds.

Culture Minister Miki Zohar declared on social media that “only the scum of the earth fires missiles at hospitalized children and elderly people in their sick beds”. The chair of Israel’s medical association, Zion Hagay, decried the strike as a war crime and urged the international medical community to condemn it.

This swift and unified condemnation by Israeli political and medical leadership underscores a striking contradiction: these same actors not only ignored but openly justified the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals over the past two years.

Since 7 October 2023, Israeli air strikes and ground invasions have decimated Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure. The World Health Organisation has recorded around 700 attacks on healthcare facilities. Major hospitals – al-Shifa, Nasser and the Indonesian hospital, among others – have been besieged, bombed and dismantled...........more.........