You have to be living under a rock not to know that Israel has been systematically bombing hospitals.
And you have to live in a parallel universe — of morals, at least — to choose to see Israel as a leader to learn from.
Israel has just bombed the Nasser Hospital complex again, killing six people, including a child and a doctor. This is yet another reminder of what Israel’s “ceasefire” and impunity look like.
Yet while Israel continues to bomb hospitals, showing only contempt for both Palestinian life and International Humanitarian Law, here’s something that you might not know: there is a tiny country in Eastern Europe that, knowing all this, still sees Israel as an example worth praising and following.
That country is where I am from: Lithuania.
Its support for Israel has been unshakeable. I have been documenting it for the past three years and have written and recorded about it before, including here and here. Almost every ministry has boasted about strengthening its ties to Israel — including in the middle of its genocide.
What every hospital bombed, every Palestinian medic kidnapped and kept in Israeli dungeons, and every wheelchair prevented from reaching Gaza reminds me of is how the Ministry of Health in Lithuania is proud to be learning from Israel about how to protect and safeguard (!) the healthcare system in situations of crisis (see one of their events here).
In short, Lithuanian medics are learning from a fascist regime that has destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system and has murdered its health workers en masse. Lithuanian medics are learning from those who have left mass graves by the hospitals they have annihilated.
The development follows the recovery of hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” over the weekend at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, central Gaza, and at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the north. A total of 283 bodies were recovered at Nasser Hospital, of which 42 were identified.
“Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, while others were found tied with their hand tied and stripped of their clothes,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
– UN report from 2024
To my Ministry of Health, the bombing of the Nasser Hospital complex will remain irrelevant. It will not be condemned. It will not be talked about. It will not be addressed. Nothing will happen — including to its desire to learn from the occupier whose crimes against humanity we are still witnessing on our phones.
This makes the answer to a question that remains essential here — so what do we do? — very easy.
We continue reminding the ones in power that WE do not live in a parallel universe.
We continue letting them know that we see what’s happening. We understand what’s happening. We can name it — and we will, as loudly and unapologetically as before.
And we will continue pointing to hypocrisies so grotesque (medics admiring the mass murderers of their colleagues) that they seem like a poorly written script of some dystopian novel.
Because this is what the actions of those in power have turned this very real universe into.
Here’s my video from earlier this year on what living in a Zionist universe looks like.
As always, stay strong, check on others, and keep your heart open.
❤️💔❤️
Justina
PS. Don’t miss an upcoming community call on deconstructing racist, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, and pro-war narratives at home (November 18, 2026).
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