The Middle East Thread

GeoConfirmed are pretty good in what they do as evidenced by some of their analysis in Ukraine. I literally just came on now to post that tweet. I have to agree with @Tamir on this one.

But people will see what they want to see and let that fit into their preconceived idea of what must surely have happened.

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32 UNWRA schools sheltering civilians , which have been deconflicted (i.e. their co-ordinates provided to the IDF) have been hit by Israeli fire. Six were killed in one such attack yesterday.

The same thing happened in the last Gaza ‘war’.

But the IDF doesn’t deliberately target civilians.

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It seems that part of the intercepted rocket landed in the hospital.

If the rocket hit an oxygen cylinder or similar it could create a hell of an explosion. That would be possible in a hospital. There is obviously no way of determining that.

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https://twitter.com/yousuf_tw/status/1714367757968384106?t=Vw7xH1plTDBqa9pldJR7ug&s=19

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https://twitter.com/manniefabian/status/1714377828131553446?t=fpYEu3GHmIN5UG5GnJpp0g&s=19

A volley of missiles launched against Israel. Seems that one of the missile was either intercepted/ misfired…

Portion of that missile maybe containing the explosive payload came in contact with oxygen at the hospital…

Part of an intercepted rocket, or a misfired one is likely to hit the roof of the hospital. Would it have the capability to rip through the building and reach the stored oxygen which is likely to be stored downstairs?

Maybe, Israel didn’t target the hospital, maybe. Could it be that one of their interceptor rocket hit the hospital?

  1. We don’t know what caught on fire. Neither do we know where the oxygen was stored (even if it’s assumed to be the oxygen tanks)

  2. The videos show that sustained barrage of rockets towards Israel from a position beyond the hospital and there probably was a misfire / interception with one or two of the missiles. The iron dome doesn’t extend to targets over Gaza though.

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Last year - They took responsiblity over the death of a journalist (i think her name was Shirin Abu Akala)
It wasnt intentional and happened on the battlefield (anyone who saw urban battles in his own eyes can know how hard it is - one big mess)
This is war - hamas started it

3 Days ago the foreign minister was arguing that hospital was a valid target. (with tunnels underneath the hospital).

Not a good look…

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“Hamas started it!” You sound like a child after they’ve been pulled up before the headmaster.

What a nonsensical argument. Did Israel have to retaliate the way it has?

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Wrong , wrong and wrong.

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Just to back up what I said above

Watch the video at 19:40. Where hospitals are justified as valid targets.

“Now I know the area. and I suppose your talking about the main hospital, the shifa hospital
the shifa hospital, its been turned into a Hamas bunker. If Hamas wants to save them they should just leave their arms and come out and nothing will happen as long as they keep the shifa hospital just like schools and kindergartens as bunkers and they fight out from there there is no law, there
is no law in this universe that protects them.”

“You know what ? Mark my words and you can show it again because I know its its recorded. When this war is over and we will bring in the international press to Shifa and to the bunkers. THe underground bunkers. The underground tunnels that Hamas is created in Gaza.”

Israeli spokesman giving their explanation live- says it was a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket.

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I’m not sure if this is lost in translation or a parody.

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Islamic Jihad is also the name of a terrorist group which operates in Gaza

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Are we just going to echo blatant propaganda and justification for massacre? Israel have bombed hospitals and schools in the past and are doing so again. They’re literally starving and dehydrating an entire population. But we’re going to believe they didn’t do this?

They didn’t intercept anything to warn them of a massive attack from Hamas, but managed to get a crystal clear recording of this?

Wake up ffs

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It was an own goal and not of the Jamie Carragher variety.

So funny how they counted 500 casualties within minutes.

They rape, murder, pillage and now they blatantly lie. Is there no end to their talents.

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I can believe that they have the capability to do it, without believing, based on what I have seen so far, that they are culpable for this one.

If they did it, it’s unjustifiable, but the evidence to that is limited, no?

Geoconfirmed said the missile might either have misfired or been intercepted.

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