NPR Finds Doctors in Gaza, Forgets Who Bombed Hospitals
While NPR highlights the doctor's 'daily life' in al-Shifa, once Gaza's largest hospital, it neglects to mention precisely why it's now a shell. Perhaps they forgot the multiple Israeli military raids on al-Shifa, detailed by organizations like Human Rights Watch, which severely degraded its function and violated protections for medical facilities under international law. Or maybe they skipped
over the billions in U.S. military aid, approved by politicians like Senator Bob Menendez, who reportedly received over $700,000 from pro-Israel PACs over his career, ensuring a steady supply of munitions for such operations. It's fascinating how Western media can zero in on the tragic consequences without ever naming the precise causes. We get the tears, the volunteer heroics, the destroyed
infrastructure – but rarely the politicians approving the checks or the F-16s making the craters. One might wonder if this 'discovery' of medical professionals working under fire is just another way to humanize the victims, without ever questioning the hand holding the weapon. How many human interest stories about bombed schools until someone asks who supplied the bombs?