Not gonna lie, I just assumed it was the IDF doing some shady shit, maybe on accident, maybe not, but now that it’s clear it was all Hamas propaganda it’s nothing but crickets.

  • oiez@lemmy.worldOP
    284·
    1 year ago

    Here’s a good article: https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206795861/heres-the-available-evidence-of-what-happened-at-al-ahli-arab-hospital-in-gaza

    Relevant quote:

    Photos from the following day also appear to show little damage to the hospital buildings, and a relatively small blast zone from the explosion. That damage pattern is inconsistent with a large air-dropped bomb, which would leave a crater and create a shockwave that would damage or destroy surrounding structures, says Marc Garlasco, a former targeting officer for the U.S. military who now works for PAX, a Netherlands-based non-profit.

    “It’s very clear to me that this is not an airstrike.” Garlasco says. Israeli bombs typically leave craters three to ten meters in size, and are designed to create a large shockwave that propels shrapnel over a large area.

    If you look at the photos of the site there’s no crater, no destroyed buildings, just burned cars.

    • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      152·
      1 year ago

      I read this and the first thing I noticed was that they don’t go on to say that the damage is consistent with the kind of rocket that they’re talking about. If the images of the damage can make or break the airstrike hypothesis, isn’t it important to know whether the images support the rocket hypothesis?