Bloomberg Shocked: You Can't Find Hostage Bodies in Rubble of Your Own Creation?
Hamas says it can’t find all dead hostages without specialized equipment, given Gaza's obliterated infrastructure. Israel, predictably, pushes back. But Bloomberg—and much of mainstream media—conveniently omits that Israel’s intense bombing campaign, which has leveled entire neighborhoods (per Human Rights Watch, December 2023), created this very environment. This selective reporting neatly
sidesteps the question of how many hostages may have died from Israeli firepower, not just Hamas custody. The narrative shifts blame, ignoring the strategic logic behind a complete siege. One might wonder if the concern for hostage recovery would be higher if the destruction wasn't so... thorough. It appears the international community is expected to gasp at Hamas's inability to conduct forensic
investigations in an active war zone, rather than question the architects of that very war zone. When 'pushing back' means flattening everything, finding things tends to get complicated.