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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Estimation at best. They probably knew about 500 people were there, but had no idea of a body count.

That being said, a lot of people were sleeping in the grass next to the impact site, and some in the parking lot. They are estimating around 200-300 people. Some of the people in the grass were already dead.

But most were using it as temporary sleeping area due to the destruction of their home.

Last point I'll talk about is that this crater was not caused by an airstrike like Hamas claimed. And the hospital is not destroyed which they also claimed. And the ballistics show that it would have come from not Hamas, but the other faction in the region, the Islamic Jihad group territory.

It seems I owe a few people here an apology.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems I owe a few people here an apology.

It shows a strong character, moral compass, openness and social skills to publicly change your opinion/stance.

You have my highest respect.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No it doesn't or at least it shouldn't. That should be the norm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

triage. These people were at a hospital. The hospital almost certainly knew how many people were waiting on care

[–] a_statistician 1 points 1 year ago

I think you vastly overestimate the control over a situation that hospital personnel have in a war zone refugee situation. We're not talking extensive medical records here.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

There's no incentive for Hamas to not lie and not overestimate. What are they have to lose? Best case it will go heavily against Israel, worst case? There's no bad case.

We started with a hospital being hit by Israeli, 500 dead, now looks like Hamas' rocket struck parking lot and soon we learn that only few cars got damaged.