Switzerland’s Stance on Hamas Is Showing More Holes Than a Wheel of Swiss Cheese

Silence from groups like the Red Cross about Hamas’s use of hospitals for terror is a stain on its reputation and the country where it is headquartered.

via Israel Defense Forces
The screenshot from a video released by the Israel Defense Forces shows a hostage being hustled into the Shifa hospital on October 7. via Israel Defense Forces

Switzerland, the country known for fancy watches, yodeling, and once unapologetically storing the gold that Nazis looted from Holocaust victims, is sitting out the clash of narratives in Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas —  but that Swiss clock is ticking. 

On Sunday, the IDF said that its troops operating in Gaza “exposed a 55-meter-long terror tunnel 10 meters deep underneath the Shifa hospital complex” and that it ran under the hospital and ended at a blast door. That discovery went a considerable way toward proving Israel’s long-standing contention that Hamas has been running an operational headquarters underneath the hospital. Also found were weapons, communication equipment, rocket-propelled grenades, and even a Toyota pickup truck packed with weapons. 

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