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IDF: Qana building fell hours after strike

An IDF investigation has found that the building in Qana struck by the Air Force fell around eight hours after being hit by the IDF.

"The attack on the structure in the Qana village took place between midnight and one in the morning. The gap between the timing of the collapse of the building and the time of the strike on it is unclear," Brigadier General Amir Eshel, Head of the Air Force Headquarters told journalists at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, following the incidents at Qana.

Eshel and the head of the IDF's Operational Branch, Major General Gadi Eisnkot said the structure was not being attacked when it collapsed, at around 8:00 in the morning.

The IDF believes that Hizbullah explosives in the building were behind the explosion that caused the collapse.

Another possibility is that the rickety building remained standing for a few hours, but eventually collapsed. "It could be that inside the building, things that could eventually cause an explosion were being housed, things that we could not blow up in the attack, and maybe remained there, Brigadier General Eshel said.

"I'm saying this very carefully, because at this time I don't have a clue as to what the explanation could be for this gap," he added.

Meanwhile in Lebanon it is being reported that the number of those killed in the collapse of the structure climbed to 60.

All targets struck accurately

Eshel said that an additional attack took place at 7:30 in the morning, but added that other buildings were targeted. "This was an attack on three buildings 460 meters away from the structure we are talking about. Four bombs were dropped and all of them are documented by the planes' cameras. They all struck their targets. In addition, we carried out a filming sortie that photographed the village during the afternoon showing that the three targeted buildings we struck. We have verification of strikes on the building and that the bombs reached their targets," Eshel said.

"An attack that took place at two in the morning struck two targets, both of them 400 meters away from the building (that collapsed). They were also destroyed. The attack between 12 and 1 a.m. struck the area of the affected house, and there were accurate strikes on the target. We are asking the question – what happened between 1 in the morning and 8 in the morning… we understand this building was attacked between 12 and 1 in the morning, seven hours before it was seriously damaged," he said.

Brigadier General Eshel explained that "since the start of fighting in Lebanon 150 rockets from a very high number of rocket launchers have been fired from the village and its surrounding areas, at a number of sites in the State of Israel. Within the village itself we have located a diverse range of activities connected to firing of rockets, beginning from forces commanding this operation – because such an operation needs ongoing command to direct it – and logistical sites that serve this end."

"From this village rockets are fired almost every day across Israel. The operation carried out overnight is an extension of operations that didn't start last night but before, and during this night we struck a number of targets in the village. All of the targets are being meticulously sifted," Eshel added.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283816,00.html

I am with all my concentration trying to understand what's going here.

Thanks for posting this. Indulge me as I try to translate.

Between midnight and 1 am Israel attacked somewhere around this building that collapsed. At 2 am, Israel dropped some bombs on another target some 400 meters away, however far this is but another poster said this was 500 yards. Isn't that like five football fields away?

At 7:30 am, more targets were struck, again many yards away. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Around 8:00 am in the morning, a building collapsed and no one seems to know why, am I right about this? And 60 people are estimated to have been killed, many of them women and children, in this building collapse.

Now at this point in time, speculation runs amok. Did Hiz intentionally blow up that building, perhaps to coincide with that 7:30 am strike just to make it look real? The article details Israeli speculation that the building was weak and eventually collapsed, perhaps from the repercussions of the nearby strikes.

WHY, I must ask, were their 60 freaking people INSIDE that building AFTER the Israelis were bombing? By Israel's own admission they were conducting bombing sorties all night and yet at 8 am in the morning there were 60 people holed up in what was essentially a house as I understand it.

For now, I'm taking the position that the Hezzies did some manipulating and somehow arranged this to happen. Might have taken eight hours to notify the world press, to get the explosives in place, to hold those civilians in that house until the most opportune time.

They make me so sick. They make me so sick it's almost visceral. I am not fooled.

They kill civilians and they strap bombs to THEIR OWN CHILDREN!

Folks, time for the manly men to step up to the podium. Because those Islamofacists don't even know the meaning of what life is all about. They are consumed and driven by hate and destruction, even to THEIR OWN CHILDREN.

I can't believe I have to share this planet with those people.