Israel bombed a refugee camp in Nuseirat. But somehow bombing a hospital is completely farfetched for them
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and other Related Conflicts in the Middle East (read the rules in the first post)
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a hospital is not a 20x20 m square space packed with people neatly sitting side by side though. it has concrete reinforced walls.
such open air damage has been seen in WW2, where the KMT accidentally dropped bombs on a Shanghai shopping street - in an extraterritorial foreign enclave at that - when attempting to bomb the Imperial Japanese Navy. 2000 were killed.
These were Hawk IIs with 500 lb bombs:
A 40 km rocket has nowhere near 500 lbs worth of payload. HIMARS has 90 kg.
I think the most fundamental question is, where does the 500 casualty figure actually originate from and is it credible? That parking lot does not look like it would fit the amount of people, nor would they really be able to clear 500 bodies in such a small amount of time to just leave a bunch of burnt cars behind.
It matters, but the fact is that we'll most likely never know for sure. It's the same story as with Nordstream, if you are supporting one side, you'll believe that the other side did it. What really matters in history is what people believe happened. And of course it's not unlikely that Hamas is using Syrian white helmets PR tactics and overstating civilian casualties. But the important consequence of the hospital strike is that Israel is losing the war for international sympathy and every state backing Israel unquestioningly is losing international soft power.
What people are learning is that Israel is showing that a democracy in the western system responds by targeting hospitals and has no concern for civilian lives
They probably just made it up. But people seem to believe that it's real, which is what matters
My answer to the usual suspects here is the response from Bassem Yousse
Most of the casualties where 'sheltering' in the yard of the hospital precisely because they thought they would be save from airstrikes.
If it's Israel, then it could be a matter of misidentification.
A gathering of refugees at the parking lot could have been identified, through satellites or drones, as an assembly point for militants. And some kind of airburst may have been used to destroy the gathering, while largely avoiding damage to the hospital.
A misfired Palestinian rocket makes a lot of sense though.
It should be possible to roughly determine the blast yield from the available footage, which I suppose would give a very good indication of who the perpetrator is.
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The hospital is barely damaged.
Number of casualties could be highly exaggerated.
Truth eventually comes out.