Mistake or Massacre?

The Most Obvious War Crime You’ll Ever See.

Israel says it was a tragic mistake when 15 medics were killed in southern Gaza on 23 March.

Then it was a mistake to bury the bodies in the sand so they couldn’t be found.

A mistake to bury their ambulances too—erasing the scene, hiding the evidence.

It was just a mistake to claim the convoy had been moving “suspiciously” in darkness, without lights, and without coordination.

But then a mobile phone was found—on one of the bodies. A murdered medic named Refat Radwan had filmed everything.

And suddenly, the official story collapsed.

The footage, verified by The New York Times, showed the ambulances were clearly marked.

Headlights on. Flashing emergency lights. Reflective vests. No weapons. No threats.

Just emergency workers trying to save lives—shot down without warning. Some of them were executed at close range. Some were reportedly found with their hands bound.

This was not a mistake. This was a war crime.

And it wasn’t even covered up well. It was clumsy. Transparent. Obvious.

Why? Because Israel is used to getting away with it. Because—if that video had never surfaced—we know what would’ve happened.

The lie would have stuck.

It would have been printed in headlines.

Spoken on cable news.

Cited by politicians.

"Ambulances used by Hamas" would’ve been the story.

At best, reduced to yet another “he said, she said” in the fog of war.

This wasn’t just an attack on medics. It was an attack on truth. And we almost let it happen—again.

Because this isn’t exceptional. This is the pattern.

Journalists. Aid workers. Children. Entire families. Killed and then blamed.

And when caught?

A shrug.

An "investigation."

A justification.

A new lie.

At some point, calling this a “mistake” is like saying a cheating husband accidentally had sex with someone. Again. And again.

It’s absurd.

It insults our intelligence.

Remember:

This is not confusion. This is policy.

This is not tragedy. This is strategy.

This is not collateral damage. This is a campaign of terror.

And if you're still repeating these justifications—or pretending there's no way to know—you're not being gullible. You're being guilty!

This was no mistake.

This was a massacre.

And there was an attempt to bury the evidence—bodies and all. The only thing that went wrong for Israel was that one medic’s phone recorded the truth.

How many times has this happened—buried, denied, forgotten—because no one was there to film it?

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