{"id":52794,"date":"2023-11-22T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52794"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:21:42","slug":"a-question-that-needs-to-be-asked-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52794","title":{"rendered":"A Question That Needs To Be Asked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/20\/opinion\/how-many-aid-groups-knew-hamas-was-hiding-in-a-hospital-and-lied-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> posted the following headline:<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline headline--single-fallback\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How many aid groups knew Hamas was hiding in a hospital and lied about it?<\/h1>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Hamas used\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/13\/news\/israeli-tanks-at-gates-of-gaza-citys-largest-hosp-as-21-terrorists-are-killed-at-another-med-facility\/\">Gaza City\u2019s al-Shifa Hospital<\/a>\u00a0as a base of terror operations. That\u2019s the obvious conclusion following Sunday\u2019s discovery of a large terror tunnel under the hospital along with videos of Hamas bringing Israeli hostages inside.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Now comes an important question for Congress: Which US-funded international organizations knew the truth about al-Shifa and helped Hamas conceal its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/20\/news\/israel-hamas-war-latest-news-and-live-updates-2\/\">war crimes<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Israel Defense Forces this weekend discovered a tunnel beneath\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/19\/news\/chilling-footage-shows-injured-hamas-hostage-taken-to-al-shifa-hospital\/\">al-Shifa Hospital<\/a>\u00a0that extends 10 meters down and 55 meters across \u2014 leading to what might be a booby-trapped door. Special units that specialize in handling explosives have been summoned to break through to the next section.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Meanwhile, Israel also released security footage showing two hostages brought through al-Shifa by Hamas terrorists following the Oct. 7 massacre as hospital workers looked on \u2014 suggesting a widespread conspiracy to conceal both the presence of hostages at al-Shifa and Hamas\u2019 terror infrastructure within the compound.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Within days of the Hamas massacre, Fabrizio Carboni, the Middle East regional director for the International Committee of the Red Cross, began spreading Hamas disinformation \u2014 telling international media that Gaza \u201chospitals risk turning into morgues.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>When Carboni said this, he may have already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/15\/news\/israel-says-it-found-evidence-of-hamas-base-at-al-shifa-hospital-during-raid\/\">known that hospitals in Gaza<\/a>\u00a0were used as terror bases and hostages were being stashed under those hospitals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;In its 2022 annual report, the ICRC says it received $689 million from the United States last year \u2014 roughly one-third of contributions received from all countries combined. That\u2019s a lot of taxpayer money sent to an organization that may have betrayed its most fundamental duty to uphold the Geneva Conventions by covering up Hamas war crimes and abandoning Israeli hostages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The ICRC and WHO have strong lobbies in Washington that will fight to protect their flow of taxpayer money. If, as expected, the State Department does nothing to hold these groups accountable, Congress \u2014 which holds their purse strings \u2014 should intervene. The first step: Investigate. The next: Put a pause on US funding until leadership changes and reforms guarantee that complicity in terrorist war crimes will never happen again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How much American taxpayer money paid for Hamas headquarters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, The New York Post posted the following headline: How many aid groups knew Hamas was hiding in a hospital and lied about it? The article reports: Hamas used\u00a0Gaza City\u2019s al-Shifa Hospital\u00a0as a base of terror operations. That\u2019s the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52794\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7864,4741,8702,88,7870,90,14028,7984,6613,934,245,657,5316,2861,9872,8321,12613],"class_list":["post-52794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-shifa-hospital","tag-annual-report","tag-funding","tag-gaza","tag-geneva-conventions","tag-hamas","tag-hamas-terrorists","tag-hostage","tag-israel-defense-force","tag-israel-defense-forces","tag-middle-east","tag-new-york-post","tag-organizations","tag-state-department","tag-terrorists","tag-the-new-york-post","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52795,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52794\/revisions\/52795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}