Israel says the Al-Ahli Hospital was hit by a malfunctioning rocket

[speak easy]

launched by Islamic Jihad. (My take: improbable, but possible)

Israel ישראל 🇮🇱
@Israel
Breaking: IDF Spokesperson

From the analysis of the operational systems of the IDF, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed through the vicinity of the hospital when it was hit.
According to intelligence information, from several sources we have, the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is responsible for the failed shooting that hit the hospital.

Link to tweet

[WarGamer]

1. misfired rocket just happens to hit an ammo dumo near hospital...

Or IDF strike hits ammo dump.


I don't know... we will probably never know because BOTH sides are capable of spinning.

[JohnSJ]

3. If they allowed a neutral party to go in and investigate, it could be determined. Problem is

the hostilities going on now make it quite dangerous for anyone to be there

[DFW]

4. If some neutral forensics people arer allowed in

They would be able to detrmine from the debris pretty quickly who fired the rocket that did the damage.

It is just as clear that whoever was responsible will not be eager to let anyone impartial conduct that investigation.

[sarisataka]

6. It would be difficult to do

A time on target strike coordinated with an enemy rocket launch that coincidentally passes over the targeted ammo dump (that should not have been anywhere near a hospital) .

[Lancero]

8. The ammo dump would be a legitimate target, but people will blame Israel either way.

If Israel directly targeted it, then might as well own it - Backlash is the same.

More likely to be one of Hamas's improvised rockets failing and landing on one of their many weapons caches. Hamas can't exactly own up to blowing up their own hospital, so of course they'll claim it was a Israeli bomb that did it.

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. At this point believe

none of what you hear and half of what you see. False flags abound.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. This.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. I'm not a "rocket scientist" ...

I'm not a "rocket scientist" but Occam's Razor suggests that there are remnants, and the remnants would indicate who fired it.

[Lovie777]

7. If it's determined by actual video and other evidence that the rockets....................

were fired from within Gaza towards Israel where one or more failed and hit the close to the hospital area, then yes, unfortunately lives were taking because of it.

And yes, there are quite a few of those ammunition sites throughout Gaza.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. That tweet has been edited to remove the video.

[inthewind21]

12. I

am suspicious of pretty much all Tweets. Especially those who are "reporting" "facts" from the US about the happenings in Israel/Gaza and who's twitter account, when clicked on "suggests" in the "you might like" area republican congress people.

[demmiblue]

10. Laurie Garrett retweet (fwiw): #BREAKING: One minute before the Baptist Hospital in Gaza was hit,...

#BREAKING: One minute before the Baptist Hospital in Gaza was hit, Hams announced on its own Telegram channel that they were launching their strongest rockets at the northern Israeli city of Haifa.

However, no interceptions or impacts were detected near Haifa.

Link to tweet

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

13. Any pics from the hospital?

A JDAM will leave a pretty large crater. A hamas type rocket not so much.

[former9thward]

15. A rocket hitting an ammo dump will create a large crater.

No matter who fired it.

[tritsofme]

14. Why do you find it improbable? Because it interferes with your "evil evil Israel" narrative?

[speak easy]

16. You are barking up the wrong tree.

Look through my previous posts. I posted it here to give Israel's response ASAP.

As for probability - I'll quote the first response here: 'A misfired rocket just happens to hit an ammo dump near hospital or an IDF strike hits ammo dump.'

If however, after a through accounting, the IDF can confirm that there were no strikes at that time, in that area, I shall accept their version of events.