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In three successive days this week, Hamas allegedly alleged that Israeli troops opened fire at the Humanitarian Foundation Distribution Center and and Gaza Humanitarian Foundation newly established in Rafah.
On Sunday, the terrorist group accused that 31 Gazans were killed by Israel on Monday that the death toll was 3 years old and Tuesday 27 were killed. The way Hamas represented it, and a large part of the world has brought it back, Israel brutally pulled civilians from Gaza which desperately sought access to vital food supplies.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, a relatively credible source of medical information, said that his Rafah field hospital had managed a mass influx of 179 cases on SundayMost of which had ball injuries and bursts of shells, and 21 were declared dead when they arrived. All the patients, he noted, said they had tried to reach the aid site. On TuesdayThe ICRC reported another mass victim incident, 184 patients, 19 of whom died when they arrived and of which eight others died shortly after. He does not seem to have published a separate announcement on Monday, but his Tuesday declaration refer to four mass incidents in the previous 96 hours. Unlike Hamas, red declarations have not issued allegations of responsibility for deaths and injuries.
Israeli defense forces said they had shot what he described as warning plans in the Help Center area-about one kilometer on Sunday and on Monday, he said, and 500 meters on Tuesday. He admitted that his fire had struck an unspecified number of people, but admitted to having killed anyone.
At a Tuesday evening television press conference, TDI spokesperson said Defrin Hamas figures have been “exaggerated”. Regarding Tuesday’s incident, Defrin said that “warning strokes have been drawn” on the suspects “which was a threat to our forces, far from where they were supposed to be”. The shots were intended to “hit anyone,” he said.
The false declaration sitting meets insistent incompetence
Trying to unravel the fog of war and give meaning to contradictory unverifiable claims has been spectacularly difficult since Hamas sparked almost 20 months of conflict with its unreal invasion of Israel, of the territory, it fully controlled, shot down of 1,200 people for life crime in Israel, and kidnapping 251, of which it still contains 57 captives.
Hamas had spent years transforming Gaza into a terrorist state, its war machine has deliberately built to use Gaza civilians as a blanket – their houses trapped, the mosques used as missile and weapons deposits, reused schools as command centers and access points to tunnels, abused hospitals with Halm chiefs trying to spend the capture Warrens, hospitals. For 20 months, Hamas worked down assiduously to distort Israel as a capricious aggressor viciously targeting the gas that the heads of terror have carefully assured would find themselves in danger.
Its representation of Israeli forces cynically killing Gazans in desperately researching food this week was one of its many tragic successes on this second battlefield – the war for legitimacy and global public, diplomatic and legal support. It is a battlefield on which Official Israel simply refused to deploy – refusing to allocate resources, hire and train qualified personnel, to formulate a strategic approach – but never with as disastrous and constant consequences as since October 7, 2023.
It is not definitively clear who killed the 61 Gazans Hamas alleged this week and near the Rafah Aid Center. It is not definitively clear that 61 gasans were killed at all. It is not definitely clear who they were. Non -combatants’ men, women and children? Hamas and other armed men killed in this region or elsewhere? Victims of Hamas gunshots? (It has been reported that Hamas has set up checkpoints and tried to prevent the Gazans from reaching the aid centers. And the FDI on Sunday published images He said that armed men have shown a fire in Gazans seeking to collect humanitarian aid looted in Khan Younis.)
Screenshot of images published by IDF, he says that shows armed men of fire opening in Gazans seeking to collect humanitarian aid looted in Khan Younis, June 1, 2025 (FDI)
However, it should be clearly clear that Israel is not deliberately interested in non-combatants of Gaza approaching an aid center set up with Israel and American support. Hamas, on the other hand, has every interest in seeking to condemn the aid project, which threatens its grip on the help of Gaza, and constitutes an alternative to supplies trucks which it has regularly requisitioned, and be used for its forces or sold to helpless gas to finance its efforts to recruit and relive. The problem is that Israel does not maintain the mechanisms necessary to clarify many in a clearly clear way.
Defrin, new in the post from which his largely effective predecessor, Daniel Hagari, was essentially deleted, defended the failure of the IDF to respond in real time to the daily allegations of the manufacture of Hamas, allegations led by Hamas of Israeli mass murder by stressing that FDI must investigate in depth before making specific responses sensitive. The FDI has indeed lost its credibility with precipitated responses. He was then forced to correct incidents such as Doctors’ walking killing in a convoy in the south of Gaza.
An effective civil The mechanism of public diplomacy, however, would at least be able to immediately explain the context in which allegations and counter-allegation are launched. Except that Israel refuses a task correctly and personnel such a hierarchy. According to the former chief executive officer of public diplomacy at the Prime Minister’s office, Gadi Ezra, who left the post when the current government took office, the cabinet did not hold a single meeting to discuss his public diplomacy strategy. Hundreds of millions of shekels have recently been allocated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a sort of media room; It does not provide any kind of real -time response to the progress events.
Official Israeli defeatism – and that’s what it is, defeatism – in the battle for global opinion is unforgivable. Competent public diplomacy would not move the needle from one side to the other. This pushes him a little, however, and would give those who have the mind to immerse themselves in the cause and the effect of this conflict a base to do so.
Political extremism
Global judgments of good and evil, the aggressor and the victim, however, are also affected by the declared policy governing the conduct of war.
The FDI said it was trying to increase its grip on Gaza to 75% in the coming weeks and push Gazans in large coastal limited areas to the south, center and north of the band. But the Chief of Staff of Tsahal, Eyal Zamir, also said that he was trying to maintain the war as short as possible to win the victory – that he defined last week as returning the hostages, defeating Hamas and dismantling his rule. It is “Not an endless war“, He insisted.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, said that war will not end until the vision of American president Donald Trump for the relocation of all the Gazans is not carried out. And the far -right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir are proven in Israel in permanently reoccupied and by reinstalling a Gaza emptied of its Palestinian population.
From left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at his office in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. (Nava Freiberg / Times of Israel); The chief of staff of the lieutenant-general Eyal Zamir in Jerusalem on March 5, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel / Flash90)
A Initial IDF probe In Tuesday’s shots would have found that the Palestinians heading to the aid center “were lost” on the way to the distribution point, approached TDI soldiers and were dismissed when they failed to withdraw. Other indications, some of which were confirmed during military information, are that the troops drew this week on what the FDI called “suspects” which went to the center before being opened and / or approached it from the outside of the safe road designated. Gaza, of course, is an area of war, and the FDI is responsible for the very complex task of protecting aid distribution centers from Hamas deadly attacks, protecting the beneficiaries of planned Hamas aid and ensuring the security of its own troops – four of whom were killed by Hamas elsewhere in the band this week.
The fog of this particular junction of the war would be a little cleaned was the FDI to allow access to independent journalists to the new help operation. But, as throughout this conflict, the FDIs think that it has more to lose via the risk that journalists of the local or international war have killed or injured Gaza than winning independent reports there.
The refusal to provide access, not providing detailed real -time information and context on rapidly evolving and fatal events, and with its inadequate responses mined by the radical policy of its own ministers for Gaza, Israel fails and its suitors supporters on the second battlefield, even if it continues to fight to eliminate the threat of Hamas on the first.
Wednesday, the Gaza Humanitarian Federation suspended its operations For the day, allow a logistical overhaul which aims to guarantee that it can manage larger than expected crowds and coordinate more effective safety procedures with the FDI – essentially to prevent the recurrence of everything that happened this week. Hopefully a day’s break will allow effective reset.
However, it will take much more than a day to resuscitate the public diplomacy of Israel, and there is absolutely no sign that the government intends to embark on such an effort.
And the worst of all, in this terrible war in the protection of Hamas, the cause and the legitimacy of Israel are continuously and deeply injured by the objectives of Gaza Vides and occupants of two parties of the coalition whose agenda dominates government policy.
