[econjack]

So a hospital as hit. That’s what happens when you launch missiles from a hospital and the enemy uses computers to trace back the launch point. Blame Hamas, you idiots.

[monkeyshine]

The hospital was almost certainly self inflicted by Palestinian militant rockets, one of which either got knocked down by Iron Dome or just went astray. It seems to have hit a parking lot. There was hardly any crater and only a small radius burn area around a handful of cars, suggesting that a Palestinian rocket fell and the fuel ignited on impact. I have not seen pictures of a hospital being significantly damaged, nor anything of 500 dead.

500 dead is a lot, and if it were true there would be plenty of evidence.

[flamberge]

The rockets were launched from a HAMAS site west of the hospital and one of them misfired, crashing into a hospital parking lot. It appears to have detonated a fuel tanker truck that was supplying the hospital electric generators.

There are several videos of the launch taken from cell phone cameras and even from an Al-Jazeera rooftop camera.

Plus, there are Israeli audio recordings of two HAMAS commanders talking about the mistake.

Not that facts matter to the angry demonstrators, or to the journalists.