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Israel-Hamas Flash Report 18 OCT 2023 - 12:15 PDT - Something Isn't Right
🕑 Added 2023-10-18 07:15:16 +0000 UTCPhoto credit: Mohamed Al Masri from the @qudsn Twitter (also known as X) account.
Quds News is a media service, of Palestinian affiliation, youth formation, its slogan is the complete image of Palestine, and it is a free platform committed to objectivity and professionalism.
This is a picture from a Palestinian source showing the extent of the explosion at the Al-Ahli al-Arabi “Baptist” hospital in Gaza City. Through our collective shock, the photo has been geolocated and aligns with 📺 before and after drone video released by the IDF.
Quds News released a short video from the same area, showing the impact. The video is mild, but some may find it disturbing, so proceed with caution. ⚠📺Click here.
The videos and pictures are date, weather, and geoconfirmed, and we deem them authentic because Israeli and Palestinian sources align.
ASSESSMENT: There is no evidence of an airstrike using any bomb, unguided or guided (JDAM). The vehicles in the parking lot have not been tossed, and the area of impact is visible - photo center. There is no crater, thin roofing material hasn't banana peeled. Adjacent trees and grass are not burned, with the worst burn damage photo left-center. There is minimal damage to adjacent building facades.
We have to get back to the Russia-Ukraine War SITREP, but our caution to wait for further information was well placed. There is no evidence in the pictures and videos to support that this was a bomb strike. There is no evidence in the pictures and videos to support the claim of 800 people killed.
What the photos and videos don't show is how many people were killed and wounded, and does not provide conclusive evidence of which combatant caused the blast.
The truth matters.
Right over first.
Comments
Ethan Stein
NYT in an article lacking humility pleads how they are actually better than other new sources at covering the incident. HaHa https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/business/media/hospital-blast-gaza-reports.html
More open source analysis supports the analysis in this Flash Report https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/al-ahli-arab-hospital-piecing-together-what-happened-as-israel-insists-militant-rocket-to-blame
Rather disgusting the NY Times ran with such an unsubstantiated and inflammatory headline.
