Israel deserves praise, not blame, for its righteous rescue of Hamas hostages

Israel pulled off a hostage rescue that deserves to go down in the annals of extraordinarily daring, highly successful military operations, yet it is being condemned for it.

The secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council denounced the “heinous and terrorist crime that targeted defenseless innocents with brutality,” while Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon have decried Israel’s alleged criminal tactics.

UN special rapporteurs have weighed in with typically fulsome denunciations of the Jewish state.

The media coverage in the US has taken a skeptical or negative tone, emphasizing the civilian casualties.

According to the laughably unreliable Gaza health ministry, the operations killed 274 Palestinian civilians.

It stands to reason, then, that it was almost certainly fewer than that. The IDF says the toll was less than 100.