“Pro-Hamas” is the only way to describe anyone who at this point in history tries to downplay or dismiss the fact that the terrorist organization uses human shields and particularly places their command centers under hospitals and other civilian infrastructure. So, that’s the terms to describe MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Monday after she argued with National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on her eponymous show about the existence of terror tunnels under al Shifa hospital.
Immediately after introducing Kirby, Mitchell leapt to Hamas’s defense by suggesting Israel’s accusations that the terror group’s headquarters was under the largest hospital in Gaza were unfounded by the facts. She went on to suggest that if there were any terrorists there, there were only “a couple” and at most a small “cell”:
Even if Israel's claim that Hamas command and control is under al Shifa as well as other hospitals, other Hamas units, even if that were to prove true – And my understanding is that the U.S. has not independently confirmed that intel. Does that justify striking a hospital? Questions have been raised by General Brown – CQ Brown, and others, that even getting a couple of terrorists or a terrorist cell doesn't justify targeting a hospital.
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