BBC: Gaza hospital: What video, pictures and other evidence tell us about Al Ahli hospital blast

[CaptainTruth]

Sorry if someone has already posted this...

Live footage from the Al-Jazeera media network aired at 18:59 local time showed a bright light rising in the skies above Gaza. Some commentators have suggested it is from a rocket which appears to explode or disintegrate. From the footage, a flash is seen far away, followed by a much larger explosion closer to the camera that we've geolocated.

Other footage which surfaced on social media channels showed what appears to be the same blast from different angles and distances.

We consulted experts to establish whether the available evidence - including the size of the explosion and the sounds heard beforehand - could be used to determine its cause.

So far the findings are inconclusive. BBC Verify has shown the evidence to a number of weapons experts, some of whom say it is not consistent with what you would expect from a typical Israeli airstrike.
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More at the link.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67144061

[Beastly Boy]

1. I have never seen so many people demonstrating against inconclusive findings

as I saw in the mass media yesterday.

[CaptainTruth]

4. Agreed. One big problem is that so much of the global media reported those findings as conclusive...

...before real facts & evidence were available. They just took the word of a terrorist organization. It's inexcusable, the media needs to do better.

[LiberaBlueDem]

2. This is what happens when war happens

Hospitals, schools and the like are destroyed and innocents suffer.

It is why war should be the last thing.

Bidens now saying send aid and suppress rage. He speaks for me.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

3. The evidence so far indicates this was not an Israeli strike.

But the damage is done. The lie got around the world and set the Middle East on fire because people were eager to believe the worst about Israel.

[totodeinhere]

5. We are dealing with Arab governments who want to accuse Israel of atrocities whether true or not.

President Biden's meetings with the Arab states were cancelled in protest over the deaths at the hospitals and the Arabs had a knee jerk reaction blaming Israel even before there was any evidence. And of course Rashida Tlaib has refused to apologize for falsely blaming Israel.

[womanofthehills]

6. NYT's -

NYT’s - blames Israel, then Hamas & now says we don’t know.



“There are still lots of bodies they haven’t yet collected,” said Amir Ahmed, a paramedic with the Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza City. “There are too many bodies.” He said all the victims would be buried in a mass grave at a funeral later on Wednesday.

“There is a big possibility that they will just put a number” on the body bags without any names, Mr. Ahmed added, “because many are in pieces.”

Palestinian officials blamed the carnage on an Israeli airstrike, an assertion that was disputed by the Israel Defense Forces, which said it was caused by an errant rocket fired by an armed Palestinian faction in Gaza.

Neither side’s account could be independently verified immediately, and the cause of the blast and the precise death toll remained unclear.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/world/middleeast/gaza-hospital-deaths-aftermath.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare