For those peddling the idea that Israel wasn't behind the rocket strike on the Gaza hospital, all of the following would need to be true:
1. Palestinian groups have managed to bypass Israel's siege and get their hands on very hi-tech weapons completely undetected by Israel.
2. They had decided not to use those weapons until last night.
3. The first time they tried to use such a weapon, it misfired and just happened to land on a hospital.
4. Israel's attack on the same hospital a couple of days earlier, warning that it must be evacuated, was purely coincidental.
When the BBC asked experts to comment, most "were not willing to put forward a view on what happened."
Given the likely career consequences were they not to find a Palestinian group responsible, one can understand their reticence....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
An Al Jazeera digital investigation found no grounds for the Israeli army's claim that the strike on the al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza was caused by a failed rocket launch. https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/1714984258358391057?s=20
I heard an interview with the BBC's bureau chief inside Israel.
He said they could see 'something was wrong' with the footage from the hospital, because most of the people seemed to be wounded, scorched; compared to Israeli bombings where people are covered in fine dust from the destroyed building. Therefore, this didn't look like the Israelis were responsible because the explosion was too small and didn't pulverize the building!
I dunno if this makes much sense. Clearly, when the Israelis, President Biden, the British PM, all back the story that it was 'an accident' from Islamic Jehad/Hamas and not Israel, it becomes nearly impossible for a Western, state sponsored, tv channel like the BBC, to contrdict the official version of events.
I don't understand how debris from a Hamas rocket falling from the sky, could cause such damage and carnage to an entire building? How big are the rockets Hamas usually fires on Israel? How big is the explosive payload? How big is the so-called engine? How much fuel does the rocket contain?
They BBC seems to be unwilling to examine these sort of questions, instead relying on 'images' which, frankly, tell us very little.
I was thinking about another thing the BBC Bureau Chief said, that he wasn't a expert on weapons and explosives; I immediately thought, then why the #### didn't he contact a few then?
If he had been an expert, or even somebody with a few brain cells, he might have heard about air-burst munitions. These have been supplied to Israel by the United States. These things are designed to explode in the air above a target, sending a crushing, massive shock wave downwards almost like a giant hammer from above. The carpark was evedently packed with refugees, mostly women and children, who imagined they were safe their right next to a hospital building, surely even th Israilis wouldn't attack a hospital? How tragically wrong they were.
Christ, I'm glad I never got that job at the BBC, I thought about.
The interviewer Lise Ducette, actually talked about the BBC people being 'a tribe' inside Israel. I wonder if she meant it was one of the lost ones?