Updated: Israel denies involvement in deadly Gaza hospital blast, says explosion caused by Islamic Jihad

    • ratz30 @lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      First, it was a separate paramilitary group from Hamas called PIJ, second they obviously didn’t intentionally bomb their own hospital. They fired a shitty rocket out of a civilian area, as they typically do, and the engine failed over the hospital.

      There is recorded communications between PIJ members talking about the misfire. They just aren’t accepting blame publicly as it’s advantageous to try and pin it on Israel.

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          1 year ago

          The analysis I heard earlier today was that after the engine failure the rocket would essentially have the trajectory of a brick. It would have detonated its warhead on impact as expected, but it would also cook off all the remaining fuel since it clearly didn’t reach the intended destination.

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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t point to a conspiracy as an “obvious” or “almost certain” answer.