President Joe Biden was asked by a reporter in Israel on Wednesday what made him confident that the Israelis weren’t behind the explosion that killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday.
Biden responded that it was “the data I was shown by my Defense Department.”
Two U.S. officials told ABC News the Pentagon independently concluded the Gaza hospital blast was likely caused by an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that fell short of its target.
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Yes, that might be the case under the current circumstances. The above picture helped to imagine what 500 people look like crammed squarely in a space. I doubt the 500 hypothetical people resting in the parking lot were placed more tightly than that.
Next, look at pictures of the detonation crater, which has the size of a sewer manhole. Imagine that explosion going off in the middle of the audience of 500 people. Would they all die from that? The sheer amount of body mass and flesh would shield the people in rows 20+ from the explosion.
I bet you couldn’t kill 500 people with whatever exploded there, if you tied them directly onto the bomb, or rocket, or whatever. Is there any precedent of a terrorist attack or military strike or anything which killed that many people with a similarly small explosion?
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Ok, fair point. But still, the explosion only has finite power. Shock waves literally do have a kill limit. They cannot rip through waves and waves of human flesh and still come out deadly on the other side. At some point, the energy is absorbed, the fragments are absorbed.
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Oh, people are arguing about exactly that. We’re even in a subthread which is all about the number 500!
As far as I know, all evidence points to a palestinian device, including the small blast radius.
And the claim that “hundreds of humans” were killed is most probably fake news.
I’m not interested to go into further rabbit holes. This cannot be resolved in debate anyways. Future investigations might reveal what happened, we cannot do that here.
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Yes, it seems absolutely impossible. 500 people is a massive number.
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Jammed full of people, not unless there’s a concert. In an emergency you try and get people into the hospital as quickly as possible, and people aren’t going to arrive all at once. I could see 50 people killed in a hospital parking lot during an emergency, but 500, absolutely not.
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They were not keeping hundreds of people in the parking lot, that’s an absurd claim.
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You’re so willing to believe Hamas propaganda about the numbers. No, 500 people did not die from the failed rocket launch.
Look at this blast zone, you really think 500 people were in there:
https://th.bing.com/th?id=OIF.KNvlh4O%2Fw%2FLvXfQQvHFl1A&pid=ImgDet&rs=1
This is not a giant wall mart parking lot, this is a tiny intersection with a dozen cars in it. No, there were not 500 people in there.
After not so careful consideration, I’ve decided to trust your claim. 500 people died because of hamas’s sheer incompetence and then used as a propaganda.What a tragedy.
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I’m sure that some valets manage to get “parking loot”
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The tragedy of the Hamas v Israel conflict? No.
The misspelling of “parking lot,” in the comment I replied to? Yes. I am joking about that in particular, because I have to find humor somewhere.