There was an argument last night about a hospital in Gaza that the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other sources claimed was destroyed. They also instantly reported at least 500 dead. This is surprising because usually it takes time to dig through wreckage and count the dead.
There was a blast at al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, a Christian-run medical complex in central Gaza City. Hamas claimed that hundreds died.
Hamas claimed it was an Israeli missile that destroyed the hospital and killed over 500.
Israel claimed it was a misfired Palestinian missile and have live tape recordings of Palestinians talking about their own mistake.
In daylight, it can be seen that the hospital was not destroyed. There is a crater in a parking lot and there are a few burned cars.
The false claims did incite demonstrations and attacks on US and Israeli embassies throughout the middle east.
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What this sad and badly researched article fails to say is that this was a Christian Hospital at Gaza, and HUNDREDS of palestines (including Christian ones) went to the hospital thinking it was the safest place.
They were not INSIDE the hospital. They were EXACTLY at the parking lot where the explosion ocurred.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206795861/heres-the-available-evidence-of-what-happened-at-al-ahli-arab-hospital-in-gaza
Even the Israelis said there were hundreds of dead (but they said 200-300 instead of over 500) and also the Israelis said it was a paletinean rocket.
But this idiotic article is denying people died because the rocket hit the parking lot, without realizing the dead WERE in the parking lot!!!
Utter BS.
If 200-300 were dead then there would be injured and the time taken to help them would have been many hours.
Almost all of the doctors and nurses would come out to help the injured and dying this would be recorded and shown.
This was not recorded and shown.
You are making claims that do not match how parking lots work. It was a tiny parking lot. You could not get that many people into so small a space.
Your credulity on this is absurd.
It is the hospital parking lot farce. It is all absurd.
https://twitter.com/nextbigfuture/status/1715841880653529111
The NPR article shows no casualties and pictures of hundreds being helped that night. People have cameras.
People park cars and they leave.
Buildings if they hit have people digging through rubble.
The day after picture shows burnt cars but no evidence of people. Did they all get vaporized with all of their belongings?
A parking lot missile would not kill everyone in the parking lot. There would be injured.
No one targets a parking lot. If there were a lot of people in a parking lot, Israel would not be firing into a no value crowd.
Any parking lot that gets hit, gets hit by accident.
The explosion happened at night. Pictures need to show carnage at night. The fake pictures show people being helped during the daylight.
By daylight we know that the buildings are all intact and virtually undamaged. An outdoor crowd hit would with barely 15 foot radius, would need people standing shoulder to shoulder. No outdoor airstrike has casualties that high. The Myamar concert hit by an air strike had 80 people dead. Outdoor bombing not everyone dies. It is a mix of dead and injured.
You are a gullible idiot. The burden is on you and those with this absurd claim. A bombing attack gets rising body count. There was no clothes or signs of people getting helped.
If the hospital was not destroyed, the Israelis would say that instead of saying it was a Palestine rocket that destroyed the hospital.
Thank you for your diligent coverage.
It is shocking that the nominally professional news services fail to match the objectivity of your site.
In war, truth is the first casualty. Not sure who saif it but still true today.
completely right