After falsely claiming “there's a lot of assumptions being made here” about Hamas using Gaza hospitals as human shields and that there was no evidence of it, pro-Hamas MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell was confronted during her eponymous show on Tuesday by Deputy Jerusalem Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum. Mitchell not only doubled down on the lie that Hamas didn’t have tunnels under civilian infrastructure, but she also falsely claimed there was no evidence that Hamas had ever stolen fuel from anyone.
At the top of the interview, Mitchell suggested Israel squandered the world’s sympathy after the October 7 attack and blamed them for the rise in anti-Semitic attacks across the globe. “And there was a lot of empathy for Israel and then with the Jabalia refugee camp being bombed and now the hospitals. You know, Europe is on fire with anti-Israel protests and messaging…there are problems all across the U.S. as well and anti-Semitic incidents,” she said.
Mitchell also floated the conspiracy theory Israel was intentionally not using what she dubbed “smart bombs” which she seemed to suggest were able to tell the difference between terrorists and civilians. And despite the ground operation moving to engage the Hamas stronghold under Al Shifa Hospital, she wanted “more ground than air strikes.”
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