The damage of Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, in southern Israel, which is considered the largest hospital in the southern region, has sparked widespread controversy on Israeli social media platforms, following news that he was subjected to missile targeting by Iran.
Not only did the impact of this event be limited to material damage, but also opened a wide discussion about the double standards in dealing with the targeting of medical facilities, and revealed deep cracks in Israeli society.
Israeli officials and media said that one of the Iranian missiles had hit the hospital, which was working to help the soldiers injured in the war on Gaza, and the missile led to the collapse of a full building of the hospital buildings, according to Israeli media.
Israel accused Tehran of deliberately targeting the hospital, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to the International Criminal Court -Iran of paying the price, while Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz held Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei responsible, and said that he should not remain alive.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqji said that the aforementioned shelling targeted the headquarters of the major Israeli army, near the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, and that the damage to the hospital was superficial and in a small part of it, and that the hospital had been largely evacuated earlier.
Sarcastic
A satirical post of Israeli journalist Yisrael Free – known for his supportive stances of the Palestinians – sparked a great controversy on the hospital.
It is noteworthy that Farri used the same formula and linguistic style that the Israeli army usually uses in its data when it justifies the targeting of hospitals in Gaza, but this time he applied him to targeting the Israeli Soroka Hospital.
The strength of this satirical publication is that it used the technique of showing the blatant contradiction in the Israeli discourse.
When the Israelis read the same justifications that they used to hear to justify the bombing of Gaza hospitals, but applied to their hospital, they suddenly realize how terrible these justifications and their logic are.
In the same context, another Israeli activist posed a fundamental question about how the Israelis justify the targeting of hospitals in Gaza, while they consider it a flagrant violation of the laws of war when the targeted hospitals are Israeli.
As the Iranian attacks continued, another racist face emerged from the Israeli crisis, which is the racism rooted in society.
An interview on the local Nass Radio revealed a shocking incident that a Palestinian nurse was subjected to from inside the Green Line, where she was prevented from entering a shelter to protect her from missiles for only one reason, which is “Arab”.
Community discrimination
Israeli media also revealed another dimension to discriminate within Israeli society, as some residents of Tel Aviv were prevented from entering private shelters due to a banner commented on it stipulating “due to the severe overcrowding in the shelter, we ask the neighbors and passers -by to go to general shelters.”
The same thing was repeated in the city of Batah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv, which reveals the existence of a class system even in the face of the “common danger”.
For 18 years, Israel has besieged Gaza, and about 1.5 million Palestinians – from the origin of about 2.4 million in the Strip – have become homeless after the extermination war destroyed their homes.
Israel, with American support, has launched, since October 7, 2023, a war of genocide in Gaza, which includes killing, starvation, destruction and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders to the International Court of Justice to stop it.
The Israeli genocide left about 186 thousand Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11 thousand missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and the famine that have been tired of many lives, including children.
