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ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin
Sep 11
1/10 🧵 The Guardian’s fallacious investigation into the Al Ahli Hospital explosion

The Guardian still have not published a correction and apology for its October 18th “investigation” into Israel’s October 17th bombing of the Al-Ahli Hospital that killed 471 Palestinians and injured 342.

The Guardian’s conclusion supported Israel’s contention that it was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) missile not an Israeli strike — based entirely on a “fairly shallow crater size”. This was the first hospital Israel destroyed, and became a test of global and media responses. The Guardian’s sanctioning of it helped pave the way for Israel to bomb and destroy every hospital in Gaza.

It represents serious journalistic malpractice https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/al-ahli-arab-hospital-piecing-together-what-happened-as-israel-insists-militant-rocket-to-blame

2/10 The Guardian’s investigation claims it’s based on a “forensic reviewing” of “open source information”. There’s little evidence of this. Rather the investigation hinged on a single interview of widely discredited former pentagon official and defence contract Marc Garlasco. Garlasco has no academic credentials as a weapons expert. In the Guardian he claims “the crater is not consistent with an airstrike” which is what the Guardian’s conclusion relies on

3/10 But who is Marc Garlasco? He’s not a weapons expert. He has a BA in government and an MA in international relations, which has nothing to do with the specific study of weapons. His experience is primarily in dropping bombs on entire villages for the the US government and justifying the dropping of bombs and the killing of civilians. He was sacked from his job for an ‘obsession with nazi memorabilia’.

4/10 The Channel 4 investigation counters the spurious Guardian/Israel’s claims directly — the crater could have easily been created by an Israeli Airburst munition - which creates small or no craters. In addition, Israel’s released audio claiming to be from PIJ fighters is debunked as a fake (no mention of this in the Guardian investigation), and the trajectory of the missile does not match the location claimed by Israel (this wasn’t part of the Guardians “forensic reviewing”) nitter.poast.org/MiddleEastEye/st…

5/10 Further: a comprehensive investigation by Forensic Architecture built 3D models that prove “Israeli misinformation” and that the bombing of Ahli Hospital could not be a PIJ missile

Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi
Feb 16
Our latest findings on the al-Ahli hospital blast: using 3D trajectory analysis, we dispute the Israeli military’s claim that the hospital was struck by a misfiring Palestinian rocket from a salvo of 17, with most of the damage caused by unspent rocket propellant.

6/10 the Guardian investigation “forensic” element relies entirely on Israel spokesperson’s claim that a video showing a midair exploration capturing the misfired rocket responsible for the blast at Ahli Hospital. Both Al Jazeera and Forensic Architecture demonstrate that this “is an Israeli interceptor unrelated to the Al Ahli blast”. As you can see from the Forensic Architecture, that the missile was sent from outside of Gaza
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7/10 This is the same and only debunked video the Guardian uses to make its claims:

8/10 A further meticulous investigation by Al Jazeera proves Israel’s litany of misinformation regarding the Al Ahli explosion and proved without a doubt that the source of the explosion was Israel. They take a second by second capture of aerial feeds to prove that the missile came from Israel nitter.poast.org/AJEnglish/status…

9/10 In fact, moments after Ahli Hospital was bombed Netanyahu close advisor, Hananya Naftali, claimed Israel bombed it saying there was a “Hamas terrorist base” inside the hospital. It was deleted once the backlash and the PIJ ‘misfire’ story was born. That never made it into the Guardian investigation

10/10 The Guardian/Israel’s claim is that this misfired PIJ “missile” was not even an entire missile but a fragment of a missile. These missiles are barely explosive as they consist of sugar and common fertiliser. Here you can see that they make a dent on the pavement.

Important to consider: between 2001-2023, prior to the Al Ahli bombing, in 23 years, the total number of rockets fired by every Palestinian faction was 37,000, the total number of people killed was“69 people, two donkeys and one cow” according to the Israeli government’s own figures. The Guardian/Israel would have you believe that this one misfired missile fragment, however, killed 7.2-times the total number of people killed by 37,000 missiles in the 23 years that preceded it. nitter.poast.org/AvivaKlompas/sta…