• huginn@feddit.it
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    11 months ago

    Seems pretty conclusive.

    Doesn’t mean that Israel should continue the genocide, just that Hamas sucks: which we already knew.

    Until this apartheid state is dismantled the violence can’t stop: both sides are bound to keep fighting with each other.

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    11 months ago

    It’s definitely suspicious that there are no munitions remnants available for analysis. You would think there would be something. If there is anything, independent investigators need to be given access. Otherwise, the perception of impropriety will color peoples’ analyses.

    But the idea this has been “concluded” doesn’t seem correct either.

    As stated in this article, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, and Forensic Architecture reached conclusions that the air explosion shows the rocket was intercepted and destroyed, not misfired, and there is no causal link between the air explosion and ground explosion at the hospital.

    The AP analysis argued against this, but did in fact note this was a possibility. I believe the CNN and others use the same arguments and resources as preliminary OSINT analyses.

    Now, GeoConfirmed and other OSINT accounts (Oliver Alexander) are backtracking from their early hypotheses and concluding the Al Jazeera claim is in fact the likely scenario, arguing that the intercepted explosion is too far away from the hospital to be connected. They still think a rocket is the “likely” cause, however.

    I wonder if we will ever know what happened for sure, but there is definitely more to this story.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, turns out Al Jazeera is run by actual journalists… Which is why Israel is trying to kick them out. Their reporting of this conflict has stood the test of time in a way that other sources have completely failed to do.

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    11 months ago

    Ah, the new York times, known for its journalistic integrity, inspiring such onion headlines as

    “It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible”

    https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

    Also well known for being on the right side of history/s https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq-war-media-fail-matt-taibbi-812230/amp/

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    11 months ago

    And everyone else has failed to make a case it wasn’t Israel…

    You won’t know that if you just read headlines, because headlines misrepresented the actual quotes in the articles…

    Edit:

    Yep, got a couple examples of headlines misrepresenting quotes…

    Weird how many people want different requirements for Palestine and Israel

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      11 months ago

      honestly this comment gives me the same feel as the tankies. There was certainly enough that it was debatable but withing 4 hours it was not “so clear”. My issue was with anyone claiming some sort of slam dunk on one party in the short term.

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          11 months ago

          all those videos while filmed within four hours were not available. First day I think I only saw one and it was days before more were taken into account. Point is suggesting folks on the internet can figure this out within four hours of the attack is rediculous. Especially when you are getting many more types of “evidence” from various sides. I myself wasted a few hours with a guy posting on israeli bomb types and such.

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          11 months ago

          GeoConfirmed literally walked back their claim, dumbass.

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      11 months ago

      Grow up. That’s how breaking news works, especially in an area with masses of refugees and bombings. People can’t calmly investigate facts in Gaza right now. Rumors can get spun out of control. A better picture is only formed several days after an event. That’s just the nature of the news everywhere.