GAZA CITY, GAZA—Following conflicting accounts of a horrific attack on a Gaza hospital, officials from the Israeli Defense Forces released a new statement Wednesday that claimed it was you, the reader of this very article, who committed the act of terror.
It was a parking lot fire. No hospital blew up. The propaganda has to stop.
Genuine question - 500 people died, right? Did that actually happen, and was it a result of this?
500 would be an insane death toll even for an actual JDAM strike on a building. Currently, however, nothing indcates that this was an Israeli strike. Their bombs are massive compared to the ones Hamas is using. The parking lot which the rocket hit is barely damaged except for the damage caused by fire. If it was Israeli bomb there would be a massive crater on the ground. There is some DISTURBING NSFL FOOTAGE that seems to indicate, that there indeed was several casualties in that strike but I’d guess we’re more like talking of tens, not hundreds of dead.
Oh wow, I haven’t seen pictures of this until now (only clicks your first link thanks very much) but I assumed it was a parking “building” (sorry I don’t know the correct English word). But this is just a parking lot.
It’s almost like the footage you see whenever there is a Tesla fire
It is VERY doubtful if 500 people died even with a direct hit that leveled the building. Supposedly, from what I can tell, (from 2 sources I’m not completely sold on yet), it was an 80 bed hospital. So it would be extremely unlikely that 500 people would be there even on it’s most crowded day ever.
And it appears general consensus is the rocket hit the parking lot, so casualties would be even less…
That seems so short sighted. Like why make something up that will absolutely be refuted within hours? It just makes people not trust you.
Yeah, I don’t agree with what Israel is doing in Gaza and am under no illusions that the IDF doesn’t do bad things, but the evidence just doesn’t back up the “hospital airstrike with 500 dead” claims. Footage shows a rocket fired from inside Gaza misfiring and landing in a parking lot next to the hospital. The geolocation of the footage has been verified. The visible damage is burned up cars in a parking lot. The actual hospital wasn’t hit by anything and the damage is way more consistent with burning rocket fuel than a high explosive detonation, which would have left a massive crater where the parking lot used to be.
Someone’s heated that everyone knows their favorite genocidal ethnostate did the thing they said they would do.
It’s the Onion, bro. It’s satire. Why you so mad?
I Googled and I found this:
and this:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/18/israel-unlawful-gaza-blockade-deadly-children
The evidence is pretty overwhelming at this point that it was not an Israeli airstrike, and was most likely a failed missile from Hamas. I say this as someone who considers both Hamas and the current right wing government of Israel to be terrorist organizations.
There have been plenty of actual crimes committed by Israel in this war and many more in the years leading up to it. It just doesn’t look like this is one of them.
lmao kindly name the type of military hardware Hamas has that could have caused that explosion. I’ll wait.
If you actually buy the US-Isreali line on this, I simply don’t know what to tell you. The Isreali defence minister called Palestinians animals, said that they shouldn’t distinguish between Hamas and any other Palestinian, and have spent the last 2 weeks indiscrimiately bombing the strip, airstriking ambulances, bombing crossings, double and triple-tapping apartment buildings, striking aid convoys, bombing critical infrastructure, displacing a million people, and bombing captive Isrealis.
Meanwhile, this “It was actually a Hamas rocket that blew up” line has been played and debunked a thousand other times in a thousand other Isreali atrocities, and I will bet you any amount of money that it turns out it was them.
It’s interesting how people on Lemmy don’t have a problem with Hamas killing Palestinians. That’s funny, apparently.
Also the spreading of the misinformation that it was supposedly Israel who bombed the hospital? It won’t get corrected. And soon appear with other misinformation people repeatedly spread online.
It’s not misinformation, err don’t know yet and won’t for years. Remember that time the Pentagon swore there were wmds? No? Cool, it’s pretty well known the Pentagon will say whatever the fuck is advantageous to themselves.
It’s interesting how people on Lemmy don’t have a problem with Hamas killing Palestinians.
I don’t think that these people really care about either of them. Siding with terrorists and trusting their every word is trendy in some social circles. It could be that some of these people spent hours on social media arguing that Russians are stupid for believing Putin’s propaganda, when the war in Ukrain was as trendy.
Damn the Onion is on fire lately.
Man, that guy that got mad about a joke that called him dense regarding this topic is going to be pissed about this.
