U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday pledging solidarity in its war against Hamas and backing its account that a blast that killed huge numbers of Palestinians at a Gaza hospital had been caused by militants.
The fireball that engulfed the Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital delivered some of the most harrowing images yet from a 12-day war, and wrecked White House plans for Biden’s emergency diplomatic mission to the Middle East, with Arab leaders calling off their planned summit with the U.S. president.
Palestinian officials blamed an Israeli air strike for the blast, which it said had killed as many as 500 people. Israel said the blast was caused by a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, which denied blame.
Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden said: “I was deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion of the hospital in Gaza yesterday, and based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you.”
I’d be interested in evidence that supports either claim.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-presents-evidence-misfired-gazan-rocket-caused-hospital-blast-slams-hamas-lies/
A photo outside the hospital shows some scorched concrete and burnt cars, but no crater or anything you’d really expect from a military bomb. The IDF also supplied intercepted audio of Hamas fighters discussing a botched missile launch:
There is also evidence that there was a barrage of rockets fired at around the same time.
Naturally this is from the IDF, who aren’t unbiased. Speaking only for myself though, I really can’t possibly imagine what Israel would stand to gain from doing this.
More dead Palestinians.
You can’t really pretend that’s not one of their goals when they’re always killing as many as possible.
If that was their goal, they could depopulate the Gaza Strip in an hour. It’s clearly not the objective, even if they’re not prioritizing minimizing casualties as much as they should.
Truly, ask yourself what Israel would do if its true aim was “killing as many as possible”. I’m genuine asking you, what do you think they would do if that was the intent, and are they doing those things?
Most genocide expert agrees the modern genocides look nothing like the past ones, and particularly say there will not likely be another genocide like the Holocaust because we literally had a world war and a convention in Geneva about it. If you marker for purposeful ethnic cleansing is that it has to look like the holocaust, you’re going to miss several genocides. If you can’t imagine why Israel would attempt to hide a motive like ‘we want to kill Palestinians because they are Palestinians’ though both words and actions then I don’t know what else to say.
And if there were no repercussions, they absolutely would.
But much to their obvious resentment, they need to play the international politics game. If they don’t, they’ll find their economy decimated in much the same way a Russia has. And when the arms deals dry up, they could easily end up on the receiving end, given their unpopularity with their neighbours.
I would keep taking inch after inch, waiting for any excuse to retaliate, and then retaliate as violently and indiscrimately as possible.
So as a purely hypothetical example, maybe I’d constantly encroach on their borders and bulldoze their homes.
Maybe I’d imprison and execute children for throwing rocks.
Maybe when a terrorist cell crossed the border and killed (a fraction as many) civilians, I’d drop an absurd number of bombs on their city, beyond what could possibly be targeting actual combatants, killing scores of civilians and levelling buildings.
Purely hypothetically of course.
Haha, really good source, read their blogs and you can see why and how they’re trying to shift the narrative.
As a European, I don’t believe anything the US says anymore. Not after decades of deception and disinformation from them.
Publisher of a claim has no relevance to whether the claim is true or not. A source being biased does not mean that everything they say is false.
Here’s the BBC, if you like them better.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67144061
And the cause of the tragedy is this:
I agree that we don’t know for sure yet. but I don’t think it can be denied that a plausible story is that a failed rocket crashed into this courtyard that had hundreds of people gathered in it, igniting the rest of the fuel and causing a large explosion.
Or maybe the IDF really did decide to just bomb a hospital courtyard. That’s plausible, though seems unlikely to me, personally.
I truly believe Israel did the hit, and the narrative is being shifted around now because they knew they went too far and international backlash might not be in their favour. We’ll find out eventually.
It’s not about plausibility anymore, they want to turn Gaza into a parking lot, these people are talking about mowing the grass every few years so that explains why the majority of Palestinians is underage.
But you’re right, I might be biased. Both sides have extremist that are willing to do anything for their cause, but one side has been pushed to the brink with no way out. I’m really not surprised this breeds terrorists/freedom fighters who’d rather die than live like a dog.
I can only think about the civilians on both sides that died. Children are dying and the next generation of terrorists/freedom fighters/orthodox extremists are being made right as we speak. This cycle of violence has no end.
And nobody even mentions the hostages anymore. It’s kids paying the price while old white men talk and talk.
I’m really emotional so not a good place to speak from, and will be reading and following less news the coming weeks, just for my mental health. I don’t want to live in this world anymore.
The barrage of rockets were launched around half an hour after the hospital blast according to the video footage.
Israel would have claimed it a military target and use that excuse. They have no reason to deny the bombing.
They have admitted to other bombings in the past such as ambulances because they were valid military targets.
I see no reason for Israel to lie about this as they have public support right now.
In 2014 they bombed a hospital and blamed Hamas. They didn’t say it was a legitimate military target, they said Hamas did it. So historically your claim is untrue.
You have a cite? This is all I could find and Israel said they did it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna161086
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2014/07/gaza-shifa-hospital-bombing
https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-case-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-262086
Same conflict but different hospital.
Thank. I’ll read through those.
No they don’t but they did downvote you for sharing something they didn’t like lol
https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-case-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-262086 OK Buddy. They even used the same exact excuse, saying it was “gaza terrorists” instead of naming Hamas directly. But continue to talk shit with no sources of your own.
Normally Israel just says they were taking fire or munitions were being there, etc.
It’s why they normally just say, yep we did it. It’s not a violation of the rules of war to bomb military targets even if it’s a hospital.
It looks bad but it isn’t a violation.
Right now the world is on the side of Israel. So they’re more like to say look at Hamas. They’re using the hospital to attack us and the world would say we get it.
Why I suspect a failed Hamas attack.
Yeah, there still seems to be no evidence. I’ve been holding judgement from the start.
There’s too much conflicting evidence for me to be able to say at this point. Has there been news on the supposed Al Jazeera recording of the event that shows an internal launch?
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What a shallow life you lead.
People a fucking dying here dude, we want proof so we know if theres a cut and dry reason to force israel to back off on the bombings due to civilian death.
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Not to say proof is unnecessary, but that’s been the case for a while now.
It’s the scope of this. This is effectively the equivalent of the Hamas attack, if Israel is responsible. Killing 600 people in an airstrike on a hospital during a war is “equivalent” to a terrorist attack killing and kidnapping a hundred people.
Hardline proof of a war crime would make a large number of countries turn on israel pretty quick. Especially given how many are already speaking up about their actions.
Thats why theyre so insistant that theyre not at fault. Because if they are, theyre going to lose a lot of free money and support globally.
They’ve targeted fleeing civilians along routes they designated as safe. And bombed locations they told Palestinians to evacuate to. And used white phosphorus. I believe these all qualify as war crimes.
Theyre all debatably excusable, and thus wont be considered a war crime until an international court argues it out after the fact. Israel has “excuses” for those events.
There isnt an excuse for this. Which is why theyre blaming someone else.
And by saying that you have already made it clear that you just view the dead as a tool. In your moral high ground, you make it clear that their death only had meaning if it means you can blame the IDF for it. Which was the “shallow” argument being made.
Believe it or not: you don’t have to have a take or choose a side on every single thing that happens in the world. And you can also wait a day or two until more information is known.
Or you can just shit on the memory of dead civilians unless they support your narrative. Works pretty well for the IDF and Hamas.
Youre an idiot, bud.
Proof of an israeli war crime would cause a global loss of support for israel. It would very likely stop israels nonstop bombing of gaza.
Knowing if israel is at fault or not is the difference between another round of deaths via horrid explosion.
If Israel did it, I think we’ll see several Western powers condemn it and stop their support. It’s uncertain what the US would do since we currently have a non functional legislative branch.
If it’s a failed Hamas attack, I think we may see Arab countries get involved to take them out, which should hopefully translate to more safety for the Palestinians. Alternatively, criticism of Israel sharply decreases, and they use that to strike even more with impunity:/.
Ah yes, sympathizing with innocent victims who were almost certainly bombed by Israel is just to bolster talking points. Not to call out obvious war crimes. If it weren’t Israel, they wouldn’t have deleted their “evidence” in the form of video analysis they posted briefly until they were called out for it being obvious bullshit.
I am not going to disagree with you, I feel like that deserves a some semblance of gravity of the situation. This isn’t a zero sum game, but we have already committed to those rules.
But at the end of the day, debating is all we can do. As I doubt most of us here have the power to stop what is happening. We have to wait until both sides have had enough. Only they can decide when that is.
Overall, my only complaint is that the only evidence that could be shown on this situation, was a 240p 15 second video from 20 km away, of a missile intercept by a patriot system.
We give 5 billion taxpayer funded dollars a year for intel on the region and this is the best they can do to clear up the situation?
Have you considered that many people here pay taxes to governments that send billions to Isreal so if it was Isreal not only do our countires share some of the blame but that also means we should vote for peole who would reign in Isreali agression and spending. Thats probably also why you see more critisizing of Isreal, because that’s something we can actually change. My government doesn’t fund or really engage with Hamas or PIJ so there’s not much more we can do but condem the taking of innocent life, which just about everyone already did.
I’m excited for people to realize that Hamas does not, in fact, give a shit at all about Palestinians and are not a “resistance” movement of “freedom fighters.”
So yeah, blowing up a hospital because they kept fucking bombs near or in it would do wonders for that.
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The question implied wasn’t “do you feel sympathy for victims of this” but rather “why are you so concerned about who did it”
I also didn’t tell you my favorite color, while we’re on the subject of unrelated topics.
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They’re unrelated to the topic you were discussing, which is why people are so passionate about the truth here.
The implied reason they care is that killing a bunch of civilians at a hospital is such an obviously horrific big deal that the party responsible will rightfully be held accountable.
The problem with your take is that the only reason people are fired up about this at all is because it is a big deal, and they’re assuming everyone is on the same page and you’re still reading the cover of the book
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