Israel Military Reports It Was You, The Reader, Who Blew Up Hospital

3 years ago by Clodsire to c/theonion

GAZA CITY, GAZA—Following conflicting accounts of a horrific attack on a Gaza hospital, officials from the Israeli Defense Forces released a new statement Wednesday that claimed it was you, the reader of this very article, who committed the act of terror. Sources claim to have unequivocal proof that you, dear reader,…

GAZA CITY, GAZA—Following conflicting accounts of a horrific attack on a Gaza hospital, officials from the Israeli Defense Forces released a new statement Wednesday that claimed it was you, the reader of this very article, who committed the act of terror.

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Devouring 8 points 3 years ago

It was a parking lot fire. No hospital blew up. The propaganda has to stop.

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Nobody 16 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I don't agree with what Israel is doing in Gaza and am under no illusions that the IDF doesn't do bad things, but the evidence just doesn't back up the "hospital airstrike with 500 dead" claims. Footage shows a rocket fired from inside Gaza misfiring and landing in a parking lot next to the hospital. The geolocation of the footage has been verified. The visible damage is burned up cars in a parking lot. The actual hospital wasn't hit by anything and the damage is way more consistent with burning rocket fuel than a high explosive detonation, which would have left a massive crater where the parking lot used to be.

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figaro 13 points 3 years ago

Genuine question - 500 people died, right? Did that actually happen, and was it a result of this?

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Thorny_Insight 21 points 3 years ago

500 would be an insane death toll even for an actual JDAM strike on a building. Currently, however, nothing indcates that this was an Israeli strike. Their bombs are massive compared to the ones Hamas is using. The parking lot which the rocket hit is barely damaged except for the damage caused by fire. If it was Israeli bomb there would be a massive crater on the ground. There is some DISTURBING NSFL FOOTAGE that seems to indicate, that there indeed was several casualties in that strike but I'd guess we're more like talking of tens, not hundreds of dead.

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fosforus 7 points 3 years ago

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Devouring 6 points 3 years ago

It's a lie. 500 people didn't die because of that. Propaganda.

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Rkmaer 2 points 3 years ago

No. The number of people dying was almost certainly smaller.

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OniiFam 0 points 3 years ago

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bluewing -2 points 3 years ago

It is VERY doubtful if 500 people died even with a direct hit that leveled the building. Supposedly, from what I can tell, (from 2 sources I'm not completely sold on yet), it was an 80 bed hospital. So it would be extremely unlikely that 500 people would be there even on it's most crowded day ever.

And it appears general consensus is the rocket hit the parking lot, so casualties would be even less........

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