A Close Look at Some Key Evidence in the Gaza Hospital Blast (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] crazyman@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Important context that the bot misses:

The Times is only explaining that this video is not of the projectile that struck the hospital. They are not claiming to know the source of that one, only analyzing this video to disprove that it supports Israel's claims.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

If Israel’s story is wrong, doesn’t that pretty much mean it had to be Israel’s doing?

Is there any other theory supported by evidence?

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 14 points 11 months ago

While I agree it's pretty damning, I'd point out that both parties are pretty desperate not to be blamed for the incident (or just generally sow confusion). It's likely we won't ever know definitively.

I'd also point out that because of the immense power imbalance (including the iron dome and broad western support) and a history of strikes against civilian targets generally (that Israel routinely warns Gaza about preemptively), it is more likely that it was an Israeli rocket responsible for the incident. But this is also conjecture and not conclusive.

If you're looking for rationale to defend one side or the other, this probably isn't it.

[-] dRLY@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I have also seen one or more comments on another post about this situation (I think on Hexbear) saying it might have been one of the Iron Dome missiles. That the supposed failed rocket from Hamas failed to launch correctly, but was maybe high enough to still have caused a lock-on by the ID. Though I don't know enough about how the dome works to really say how likely it would happen. As it could be an opportunistic moment for Israel to launch a few non-ID attack missiles. While the media would be more likely to be streaming the air-explosions from the intercept missiles.