Gaza hospital: What video, pictures and other evidence tell us about blast

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67144061

by djkivi • 3 years ago

14 21 3 years ago

_ea1k2• 3 years ago

The BBC came out on the wrong side of this initially and are now pretending that the proximate cause is harder to determine than it is.

lozenge• 3 years ago

Nobody should expect rolling TV news to meet the same standards of accuracy as written news.

vimax• 3 years ago

An open question also means people are more likely to check back for an update. Once the question is closed, there's less value for further reporting.

kaiwen1• 3 years ago

This article is trying desperately to avoid stating the obvious, that the evidence now points directly at a failed Hammas missile launch.

seanmcdirmid3• 3 years ago

If it states "obvious" and then later we find out the obvious is wrong, they lose all of their credibility. Publications should only report, not make conclusions (let someone else connect the dots and report on their conclusions instead).

dogma11383• 3 years ago

Unlike the situation in which everyone jumped on the same headline within 5 min before any evidence or footage was even identified and then had to walk back from it?

_ea1k2• 3 years ago

The problem is that they started by implying the opposite. They should have been at least this ambiguous to begin with.

Daviey2• 3 years ago

Hamas? I understood the Israelis were stating it was Palestinian Islamic Jihad's. Which evidence are you relying on to be sure it was Hamas?

camdenlock• 3 years ago

Are you insinuating that Hamas is not an Islamic jihadist organization?

tristor• 3 years ago

I think it's pretty obvious to any unbiased observer that this was caused by Hamas.

orwin• 3 years ago

The Hamas isn't the only armed organization in Gaza, merely the one bankrolled by Netanyahu. Its kinda obvious it was from Palestinian stock, not that it was the Hamas.

xchip2• 3 years ago

What are the grounds for your statement?

andrejguran2• 3 years ago

What might add a lot of fuel to the flame is Israel's spokesperson initially confirming it was Isreal in a tweet he later deleted: https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/171440059899126196...

pragmatic• 3 years ago

This guy appears to be an “influencer”. Google says he’s a YouTuber.

Dos he have some official position with the government?

andrejguran2• 3 years ago

His website says he works for the prime minister: https://www.hnaftali.com/

xchip2• 3 years ago

None of the 3 experts are engineers, here are their backgrounds:

- J Andres Gannon: PhD, Political Science (His background is omitted in the article)

- Justin Bronk: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=9CS4EGsAAA... (definitely some war stuff but not an engineer)

- Valeria Scuto, London School of Economics and Political Science (no need to say more)

Gaza hospital: What video, pictures and other evidence tell us about blast

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