• Dienervent@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t the Gaza hospital at the very least confirmed to have been a relatively minor explosion in the parking lot?

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      1 year ago

      No, major explosion killing 200+ people from a failed rocket launch by neither Israel or Hammas but by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group. The problem is that even after that happened, PIJ admitted to it, and it’s been reported across news sources leaning both ways, IDF and Hammas would rather point fingers at each other than admit a third party is at fault. Hammas needs their supporters and allies to believe it’s IDF. IDF needs the world to agree all of Gaza is Hammas and needs to be genocided ethnically cleansed eradicated removed from Gaza.

      It was an awful tragedy that has been used deceitfully from both sides. Biden saying to Israel that it was “probably the other guys” was just plain stupid, incompetent, and misleading.

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        1 year ago

        major explosion killing 200+ people

        Is there any proof of that? From what I saw the estimates kept going down and down, with various OSINT groups claiming likely proof of merely tens of people and actual intelligence agencies more conservatively 100+, but not 200. It seems unlikely that if Hamas had the bodies of 200+ people they would not even take photos for propaganda purposes.

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        1 year ago

        from a failed rocket launch by neither Israel or Hammas but by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.

        The US said “Israel likely isn’t responsible” one time, and this is what people are repeating…

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        1 year ago

        I’m sorry, what?

        The IDF pinned it on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad almost immediately, not Hamas. Israel doesn’t really care that much about the distinction between Hamas and the PIJ and doesn’t gain anything by conflating them. If anything, the PIJ is even worse than Hamas, and they literally have the word ‘Jihad’ in their name, so if anything, Israel would be incentivized to label more things as self-admitted jihadists.

    • simulacra_simulacrum@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That was the latest that I saw. Not to excuse the rest of Israel’s actions. Really hard to discern the fake news and propaganda from reality on that one though. And it’s a moot point anyway. It’s blamed on Israel now, because that’s the story that is sticking.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but there was a bunch of people who were gathered there because their homes had already been bombed…