Monday, Israel Attacked the Nasser Hospital in Gaza Twice. The Second Bomb Fell when journalists and aid workers were already on the scene. Experts Say This is no coincidence. In Fact, IT, A Proven Technique That Russia also uses in Ukraine.
Residents of Gaza Have Become Accustomed to Attacks on Hospitals. On Monday, a rocket hit the Nasser Hospital in the City of Khan Younis, Killing One person. But this time, the attack did not end there.
Just When Rescuers Were Searching for Victims Under The Rubble And Journalists Came To Record The Damage, A Second Bomb Fell On Exactly The Same Spot, Killing Twenty People. Among Them Were Five Journalists. Several rescuers were also killed.
Everything Points to a Deliberate ‘Double Tap’ Attack. In Such An Attack, The Army Deliberately Waits After An Initial Bombing Until Civilians, Aid Workers and Press Flock in, to Strike Again. “That’s just worse than a regular attack,” Says Jessica Dorsey, Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University.
Althegh Illegal Under International Law, A Double Tap Attack is a Proven War Tactic. It has also leg used by the united States in the Past, Duration the Fight Against Terrorism After the Attacks of September 11, 2001. Accordance to Dorsey, Saudi Arabia has also applied this method in Yemen, Including at a funeral.
Accordance to Military Specialist Patrick Bolder of the HCSS Think Tank, Russia Has Used This Type of Attack Most Often in recent Years, in Ukraine. “Russia then attacks a residential block, and does so a second time when the rescue services are there,” Says Bolder. “Medical personnel are carce in a war. By Hitting them, the resilience decreases in later attacks.”
Israel Used to Apply the Tactic in A Less Aggressive Form. Back then, a First Small Attack was “A Knock On The Door,” Bolder Says. A signal that anyone quiet nearby should flee before the larger attack that would follow.
Israel is Omitting That Announcement in The Current War in Gaza, Bolder States. “The country is Lowering Its Own Standard on how it deals with Civilian casualties,” Says the Expert. “Israel Doesn’t Seem to Care at All anymore. Then as a country you slide down to a moral low point.”
How Often Israel Has Already Carried Out A Double Tap Attack in Gaza is Difficult to Confirm. But accordance to Dorsey, Monday’s Attack is Certainly Not the First Time. Precise data is Difficult to Determine Due to the Large Number of Israeli Attacks and the Lack of Observers On The Ground.
Accordance to Research by the Israeli Magazine +972 , There Are Now boxes of examples of Double Bombings and It Has Even Become a “Standard Procedure”. The Research Dates From Before Monday’s Attack.
Since October 2023, at Least 192 Journalists Have Been Killed in Gaza. Whether They Were Killed by Double Tap Attacks is Difficult to Prove. Yet accordance to bolder, it is no coincidence that so many journalists are killed. “Israel Simply Doesn’tn’t Want any reports from Gaza That It Cannot Influence itself,” He says. “The Army Tries to Link Every Journalist to Hamas So That They Become a Legitimate Target.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Called Monday’s Attack A “Tragic Accident”. But Both Bolder and Dorsey Call That Unbelievable. Dorsey Cannot Imagine That “One of the Most Advanced Armies in the World” would do Such a Thing by Accident.
She Fears That Now That Israel Is Applying the Double Attack Method, It Will Become Further Normalized International. Accordance to Her, the International Community Must Take Strict Action Against This. “It is already not allowed under humanitarian law of war to attack civilians. This is an equal worse degree. It’s really malicious.”