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Identifying Possible Crater from Gaza Hospital Blast - bellingcat
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People keep saying this but it's not true. Here's a case from 2014 where the consensus is the munition was Israeli, with the eyewitness account of a NBC reporter. The impact was also indirect. The excuse is even the same, they blamed 'Gaza terrorists', not Hamas directly. That doesn't mean its the same this time but it's not a given that Israeli munitions would simply level the hospital.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2014/07/gaza-shifa-hospital-bombing
People seem to believe that every single bomb/missile that is being launched by the IDF into Gaza is going to be capable of or intended to level entire buildings for some reason...
This is such a weird assumption, but I guess a lot of people don't understand that military forces use varied munitions depending on target hardness, density, etc.
There's also a misconception about equating JDAMs with Israeli bombs in a strict sense, where people start to assume every Israeli bomb is a JDAM but thats not true either.
https://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-air-force-photos-fighter-aircraft-armed-unguided-weapons-2023-10
Yeah, good point because another crazy post I saw from someone today argued that it WAS a JDAM that hit near the hospital....
There's a lot of people that seem to think they got their degree in military tactics and munitions from upstairs college this week.