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The IDF announced that the initial investigation into the explosion at the Ahli Baptist Hospital in central Gaza where Hamas claims as many as 500 people were killed was caused by a Hamas rocket that was misfired and struck the hospital and not by an Israeli airstrike.

The IDF statement says that “an analysis of IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit."

"Intelligence from multiple sources we have in our hands indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza," the statement added.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the explosion at the hospital in Gaza and wrote, "The entire world should know: The barbaric terrorists in Gaza are the ones who attacked the hospital in Gaza, not the IDF."

"Those who brutally murdered our children, also murder their children."

Minister Benny Gantz wrote, "The missiles of The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) murdered this evening innocent Palestinians in a hospital in Gaza. The elimination of terror organizations Hamas and the PIJ is a moral necessity for Israelis, for Palestinians and for the whole world."

1 posted on 10/17/2023 1:34:06 PM PDT by silent majority rising
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Surprise, surprise, but Hamas has changed their estimates downward to a few dozen..


2 posted on 10/17/2023 1:35:04 PM PDT by silent majority rising
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CNN hardest hit.


3 posted on 10/17/2023 1:36:09 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Video of Hamas rocket misfire landing on their own hospital.
4 posted on 10/17/2023 1:36:45 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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IOW. Hamas supporters got Hamased.
6 posted on 10/17/2023 1:38:33 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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An Al Jazeera broadcast documented the moment when Islamic Jihad launched a rocket which misfired and hit a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds
https://rumble.com/v3pyqk7-an-al-jazeera-broadcast-documented-the-moment-a-rocket-misfired-hitting-a-h.html


7 posted on 10/17/2023 1:40:26 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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Oh really? I was just flipping through YouTube videos and see many about those murderous Israelis targeting a hospital and killing hundreds.
If it turns out it was a HAMAS hit, i’ll be lucky to find one video reporting it.


10 posted on 10/17/2023 1:41:12 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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Hoist by their own petard.


17 posted on 10/17/2023 1:44:29 PM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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The only rational explanation

If you think Israel values life so little, you are irrational


19 posted on 10/17/2023 1:45:49 PM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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22 posted on 10/17/2023 1:47:08 PM PDT by Iron Munro (No one wahts the so-called Palestinians fro Gaza.)
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Misfire. I’ll bet.


23 posted on 10/17/2023 1:50:48 PM PDT by william clark (A man who is unwilling to be proven wrong has little regard for truth.)
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“Attacked” is not the terminology of the IDF which called it an errant missile from Hamas — that is yet to be proven as well. This is probably just the beginning of things “going south” for Israel.


24 posted on 10/17/2023 1:51:36 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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Still will blame Israel.


25 posted on 10/17/2023 1:53:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~Definition Of A Business Jet: A Mailing Tube For Executives ~)
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We can’t confirm why the hospital exploded or how many are dead for injured .

Keep going


28 posted on 10/17/2023 1:59:04 PM PDT by NoLibZone (We are not the offspring of the American patriot movement. We are emailing cowards.)
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Look at the slanted headline in Reuters... making it seem like this is all Israel’s fault:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/diplomats-renew-calls-gaza-aid-iran-warns-israel-2023-10-16/


29 posted on 10/17/2023 1:59:30 PM PDT by mikelets456
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So are there conclusive markers yet?


30 posted on 10/17/2023 2:00:28 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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May 2021 AP story in LA Times

How Hamas amassed thousands of rockets to strike at Israel

May 2021

The Hamas Rocket Arsenal

August 2021

Hamas' Advanced Weaponry: Rockets, Artillery, Drones, Cyber - EXCERPT:

In the 11 days of the 2021 war, Hamas launched 400 rockets a day, nearly four times the daily average number of launches in 2014. Hamas also launched six suicide drones during the war. All were intercepted by Israel, some by classified means.

August 2021

Hamas' Advanced Weaponry: Rockets, Artillery, Drones, Cyber

HAMAS UNDERSEA NAVAL COMMANDOS:

The IDF identified a Hamas naval base in 2016, before announcing the sea tunnel [discovered in 2018] . . . A senior Israeli Navy officer said. "We consider it a 'blue tunnel'—from land to sea.

[August 1, 2021], after the 2021 Gaza conflict, evidence suggests that Hamas imported weapons through an underwater tunnel on the Mediterranean coast.

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Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel [Wikipedia] EXCERPT:

"Attacks began in 2001. [As of August 2014 data] almost 20,000 rockets had hit southern Israel . . ."

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Rocket & Mortar Attacks Against Israel by Date [2001 - 2023]

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32 posted on 10/17/2023 2:04:13 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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Hamas loves its human shields.


33 posted on 10/17/2023 2:07:27 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Some of the videos that are supposedly current Israeli missile attacks are actually building demolitions. I started replaying one of them, and you can plainly see the timed explosions at the base of the buildings. One side explodes, starts to fall, and then the bottom of the other side, you can see rapid, timed explosions at the base. The second round of explosions are timed so that the building implodes on itself. The narration in some of these videos tries to be current, but the video is not.

None of this is a big surprise. My favorite video so far is of a Gaza reporter / talking head freaking out over a missile strike right near her. Reminds me of the CNN creeps in Baghdad highrises trying to report as nearby buildings were hit. There was even a video of a cruise missile flying down the street, heading to its programmed target.


34 posted on 10/17/2023 2:15:06 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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The left will be forever blaming Israel.


35 posted on 10/17/2023 2:16:59 PM PDT by Revel
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If the video I saw was this event, the explosion was far bigger than the average one caused by a Hamas rocket. I think it hit a Hamas weapons bunker, although hospitals do store lots of explosive gasses, and this one probably had diesel fuel for generators.


37 posted on 10/17/2023 2:17:55 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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