U.S. spy agencies believe that the blast at a Gaza hospital a week ago was caused by a Palestinian rocket that suffered engine failure and broke apart into two pieces, with the warhead striking the hospital’s parking lot, intelligence officials said Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters by phone, the intelligence officials said they had “high confidence” in their assessment that it was not Israel that fired the rocket, but they were less certain which Palestinian militants fired the projectile on the evening of Oct. 17.

“We assess with high confidence that Israel was not responsible for the explosion at the hospital and that Palestinian militants were responsible,” an intelligence official said. “We assess with low confidence that Palestine Islamic Jihad was responsible for launching the rocket that landed on the hospital.”

  • hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t said it in a minute so I’ll repeat it. Killing civilians is not ok no matter who does it. It doesn’t matter that Israel kills 36x as many civilians or that the US gives Israel $3-$4 Billion a year or that Netanyahu funded Hamas or that Israel is a colonist apartheid state, it is wrong when Hamas kills civilians.

    If that’s not terrorism, I don’t know what is…

    53.5% of children in Gaza have PTSD, is that not the result of terrorism? How about what’s going on in Gaza right now? How about the settler terrorism committed by Israel? To be clear I’m not saying that what happened on Oct 7th was not terrorism, I’m not denying Hamas committed terrorism but it is hard to think they are somehow more culpable than the much better equipped Israel.

    Did you see the clip where a member of Hamas is walking through that party place and is shooting each portable toilet to kill anyone hiding inside them? What do you think of that?

    nope, source?

    Do they get to the right to criticise Hamas?

    Sure? I’m not really sure what that has to do with the attack on Al-Ahli.