Firing or self -shot?

Novyevropa is versed in the versions of the strike at the al-Ahli hospital in the gas sector

The Palestinian authorities of the Gaza sectors, controlled by the Hamas Islamist movement, argue that, as a result of a powerful explosion in the courtyard of Al-Ahli Hospital, hundreds of people could die. Hamas accused Israel and stated that it was an intentional air blow. Israel denies these accusations and says that the cause of the explosion was a rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad terrorist movement.

US President Joe Biden, who flew to Israel on Wednesday, also stated that the Israeli authorities, apparently, were innocent in what happened. Novyevropa, along with experts, figured out who was most likely to be behind the hospital, how plausible data on the dead are and why Hamas is profitable to use this occasion for propaganda purposes.

Recrimination

According to the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Sector (obeys the Hamas movement), as a result of the explosion that occurred in the evening of October 17, 471 people died in the territory of the Al-Ahli hospital, hundreds of people were injured. Some Arab media called the figure of 800 killed. Both sides of the conflict were accused of what happened.

Hamas officially stated that Israel “has a direct responsibility for this terrible reprisal, a lively with the use of American firepower, owned only by the invaders.”

According to the Israeli defense army, the cause of the explosion in the hospital was a rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad terrorist movement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote that the fault in the explosion lies on the terrorists: “The whole world should know: barbaric terrorists attacked the hospital in the gas sector, and not the struggle. Those who brutally killed our children kill their own children. ”

Representatives of the Islamic Jihad deny all the accusations.

On Wednesday, at a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Joe Biden said that he was deeply saddened and outraged by an explosion in a gas hospital. “Judging by what I saw, it seems that this was done by another team, not you,” said the leader of the United States. “But there are many people who are not sure of this, so we have a lot to do - we need to overcome a lot.”

According to the Israeli military expert David Sharp, the American president would not have risked his reputation for the sake of unfounded statement and conspire the Israeli authorities. Apparently, Joe Biden had the data of the Pentagon and special services of the United States as an argument.

The Russian BBC service reports that the Al-Ahli Hospital is under the patronage of the episcopal church of Jerusalem and the Middle East (part of the Churches of the Churches). The Middle East correspondent of the BBC Tom Bateman said with reference to local residents that hundreds of forced immigrants were hiding in the church in the hospital. According to the reporter, the photographs from al-Ahli show how bloodied and crippled wounded are taken out in the dark on a stretcher. On the street littered with debris, you can see the bodies and broken cars.

Blow from the cemetery

“The analysis of the operational data of the IDF allows us to argue that the terrorists made a missile volley in the gas sector. At the time of the explosion in the Al-Ahly hospital, the missiles flew in the immediate vicinity of her, the Israeli military statement said . “Intelligence from several sources that we have, indicate that it is the Islamic Jihad that is responsible for the unsuccessful launch of the rocket that struck the hospital in the gas sector.”

Expert David Sharp says that on several videos posted on social networks, a missile volley from the side of Gaza towards Israel is visible, an emergency operation of one of the missiles and a few moments later a strong explosion on Earth.

According to the Israeli military, the radar recorded the launch of missiles from the gas sector. Al-Ahli Hospital is located next to their trajectory.

The representative of the Israeli Defense Army Daniel Hagari at a briefing on Wednesday stated that the missiles released by a group of militants of the Islamic Jihad flew past the hospital building and got into the parking lot.

According to him, on Tuesday at 18:59, Islamic Jihad released a volley of about ten missiles from a nearby cemetery. Immediately after this, reports about the explosion in the hospital of the city of Gaza began to arrive.

Demonstrating the hospital scheme, Daniel Hagari told reporters that the hospital building did not receive very severe damage and that the "walls are intact." According to Hagari, the Palestinian side could overtake the number of victims of the blow.

“From the open data it is known that the airborne aviation at the time of the explosion did not work at all in this area,” says David Sharp, New Evrope. - So I fully support the official version of the Israeli authorities that the militants of the Islamic Jihad launched an emergency that had worked abruptly. In addition, the figure of the dead looks significantly overstated.

Data on 500 killed appeared in the Arab press 40 minutes after the start of the events, when the hospital still blazed a fire and not a single organization simply could physically calculate the number of victims.

At the same time, the explosion that is clearly visible on the shooting does not look extremely powerful. And in order to kill several hundred people at once, you need an ammunition of a huge amazing force. Photos with a large number of corpses are still not presented to the general public. There is no list with the names of the victims. It is likely that the data about the dead are significantly inflated. ”

David Sharp claims that the Israeli defense army is trying to monitor the reputation and not issue obviously false information.

The IDF officers, according to our interlocutor, have not been customary to resort to open lies, unlike terrorists of the gas sector, using any reason to impose their propaganda.

David Sharp says that the Israeli authorities even had to publish part of the intelligence information. Thus, the Israeli defense army published an audio recording in social networks, which, approving, can be heard a fragment of an intercepted conversation between the two Hamas militants:

“I tell you, this is the first time we see the fall of such a rocket, and therefore we say that this is a rocket of the Palestinian“ Islamic jihad ”.”

- Is it from us?

- It looks like this.

- Who is speaking?

- They say that the shrapnel from the missile is local and unlike the Israeli Shrapnel .

- My God, could she find another place to explode?

“They launched her from the cemetery after the hospital.” She did not work and fell to the hospital.

- Is there a cemetery?

- Yes, just in this area.

Also, the Israeli military published a video that states the territory of the hospital before and after the blow. Hospital parking with burned cars is visible on the frames. The signature explains that this is the place of the rocket explosion. The main building of the hospital suffered slightly. The windows are knocked out there, but the building itself remained intact. In addition, the video shows that there is no funnel characteristic of the hospital in the hospital. Representatives of the Israeli Defense Army argue on this basis that the rocket did not occur in the hospital.

Air explosion

“It would be possible to put forward various versions if all events were not filmed by hundreds of cameras,” the former employee of the special services and police of Israel Sergey Migdal tells the New-Europe. - Today in the region of the GAZ sector there are about 1,400 foreign journalists. Add local reporters to this. Many of them lead a constant direct broadcast on borders with Israel. According to these shots made on October 17 in the evening against the backdrop of the dark sky, it is absolutely clear that one of the missiles launched by terrorists fell apart and fell into the hospital area. Right on the eve, the militants announced the launch of a very serious Haifa missile. Before this Israeli city from Gaza is quite far away - more than 150 kilometers. Therefore, a large -range missile was supposed to start with a powerful warhead and a significant supply of fuel in order to cover such a distance. This explains the serious fire that arose at the site of the fall of the wreckage of the rocket. ”

David Sharp says that Hamas and Islamic Jihad have a serious industrial production of missiles of various types used for Israeli attacks. At the same time, it is the Islamic Jihad who more often allow marriage from its ammunition. “The fault of the abnormal operation of the rocket could be either the initial malfunction in the structure and the human factor at startup,” explains David Sharp. - There is little time for thorough preparation of the launch of the militants. At any time, something deadly from the air can fly over them. Therefore, I fully admit that the launch was not made accurately. ”

According to Sergei Migdal, if a heavy Israeli air bomb were used to shell the hospital, as the Hamas claims, then a deep crater would remain at the scene of the explosion. According to our interlocutor, about 30 percent of the rockets launched from the city of gas does not reach the border with Israel and explodes in the sector. This applies to both small cash desks (an uncontrollable jet -made shell), and large long -range missiles. One of the large missiles has recently been shot down in the sky over Haifa using the new Pravish David missile defense system. Sergei Migdal calls similar launches symbolic. Hamas produces them in order to terrify the inhabitants of the Central Israel.

“During the time of the war on October 7, more than 450 missiles released from the gas sector did not reach the border with Israel and fell to the heads of people living in the enclave,” adds Sharp to this, “many Gaza residents were injured from such friendly fire.”

“Hamas propagandists are always ready to use any reason to show the whole Arab world as poor Palestinians oppress the nightmare Israel,” says Sergey Migdal. - Even a random, most likely, the tragedy in the hospital immediately began to demonstrate in the media and social networks, as the next crime of the IDF (the Israeli Defense Army). At the same time, almost all European states and the United States unconditionally support Israel. ”