Hind Rajab and her Family

It's impossible to post every time the IDF lies. They lie so much you would need a team of thousands of bloggers to catalogue it all. Just mendacious lying assholes. All. The. Time.

But the case of Hind Rajab deserves mention as she has caught the attention of the world. To be clear - there's harm in doing this as well. One of the reasons we are so taken with Hind's story is so that we can focus on this one little girl, instead of acknowledging that there are literally thousands of little girls who have been slaughtered by Israeli ordnance. It is not my intent to erase or ignore those many other deaths.

Sometimes one of these many incidents where the IDF murders children - it causes a backlash. In the ancient days of August 2022, this was most of the cases where multiple children were blown to smithereens. The IDF denied that they bombed these kids, but had to backtrack when presented with shrapnel bearing a serial number from their missile.

More recently, the IDF said that it was impossible for their airstrikes to have killed the three hostages that Hamas claimed were victims of IDF bombs. You see, the IDF wasn't actively striking the area - only, oops - yes, they were. They did in fact bomb the area the hostages were in.

It's reflex. They claim credit for all their kills, unless there's a backlash to those specific kills in which case they were nowhere near the area and it had to be a misfiring PIJ rocket.

Hind said she saw the tanks. Her sister said she saw the tanks. The IDF says "impossible, we were nowhere near there. It could not have been IDF tanks." Never mind that the damage done to the vehicle and to the ambulance crew were substantial - I guess the IDF is claiming that Hamas hit it with antitank rockets or something.

Unfortunately for the IDF, there's satellite imagery of the region. Here's a detailed AlJazeera investigation into it. Maybe this will all be forgotten - maybe the IDF will never have to admit that it was in fact their forces which slaughtered this young girl, her family, and the medics who tried to save her. It's possible that this just disappears down the memory hole.

But here's the sad part - it would not make any difference either way. If the IDF was forced to admit their guilt in this act, it changes nothing. They were eventually forced into admitting other blatant lies and still allowed to carry on in their murderous ways. They were forced to concede that they assassinated Shireen Abu Akleh, and yet if anything their approach to journalists in Gaza has only become more murderous.

And it brings us back to the start of it all. The IDF murdered Hind and her family and the medics that tried to save her. But one of the drivers of us caring about this one is so that we don't have to think about the thousands of other cases which are all basically the same. This is what the IDF does - they kill Palestinians. Innocent children, their families, adults, civilians - and also maybe some Hamas fighters too. It's just massive amounts of wholesale slaughter.