Israeli MK-84 AIR BURST bomb (supplied by USA) struck al-Ahli hospital grounds
by Peter Gerard Myers
Date: October 25, 2023
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(1) Hananya Naftali tweet "Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas
terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza"
(2) Hananya Naftali is a leading Israeli Jewish influencer - Jerusalem
Post
(3) Hananya Naftali, social media star and pro-Israel influencer
(4) Hananya Naftali Apologises For Hospital Blast Tweet Claiming Israel
Is Responsible
(5) Expert analysis shows Hospital missile originating in Israel
(6) Israeli MK-84 AIR BURST bomb (supplied by USA) struck al-Ahli hospital
grounds
(7) "We heard the sound of a missile launched from a plane, and a
second later we felt the explosion"
(8) Absence of craters in Gaza hospital attack proves it was an MK-84 guided
air-burst bomb, & done by Israel
(1) Hananya Naftali tweet "Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza"
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Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali
BREAKING: Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza.
A multiple number of terrorists are dead.
It's heartbreaking that Hamas is launching rockets from hospitals, Mosques, schools, and using civilians as human shields. #Hamas_Is_ISIS 20:23 . 17/10/2023 . 5,500 Views
(2) Hananya Naftali is a leading Israeli Jewish influencer - Jerusalem Post
The rise of Hananya Naftali, social media star and pro-Israel influencer
https://www.jpost.com/author/hananya-naftali
HANANYA NAFTALI
Hananya Naftali is a leading Israeli Jewish influencer and human rights activist in the fight against antisemitism, antizionism and the BDS Movement.
Naftali has been working for the former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of his digital team for the past 3 years. Naftali served in the IDF and fought Hamas terrorists during Operation Protective Edge (2014) and treated wounded Syrian civilians as a combat medic.
(3) Hananya Naftali, social media star and pro-Israel influencer
https://www.jns.org/the-rise-of-hananya-naftali-social-media-star-and-pro-israel-influencer/
The rise of Hananya Naftali, social media star and pro-Israel influencer
"When you're 22 and the prime minister offers you a job, you don't say no," Naftali told JNS.
AVI KUMAR
December 8, 2022
Who is Hananya Naftali?
His Twitter page, which has more than <https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali> 165,000 followers, states, "I'm that Israeli who talks to the camera about peace in the Middle East."
Indeed, Naftali-a prominent pro-Israel influencer on multiple social media platforms, speaking out against antisemitism, BDS, Iran and other threats the Jewish people face on a daily basis-has become a household name.
Naftali was born in 1995 in Safed (Tzfat) to parents who were refugees from the former Soviet Union, and later grew up in Samaria. The family immigrated to Israel in the early 1990s, as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed, with the help of the Jewish Agency for Israel in Hungary.
"From the stories I heard from my grandpa, things weren't good," Naftali said in an interview with JNS. "People made fun of his name and even suggested changing it to conceal his Jewish identity. And today, this cycle is coming back, and Jews are one of the few groups in the world that still have to conceal who they are."
(4) Hananya Naftali Apologises For Hospital Blast Tweet Claiming Israel Is Responsible
Hananya Naftali Apologises For Hospital Blast Tweet Claiming Israel Is Responsible
Ellissa Bain Wed 18 October 2023 8:54, UK
Israeli influencer Hananya Naftali has apologised after a tweet he shared about the hospital blast in Gaza City contained misinformation.
Hundreds of people have been killed by an explosion at the crowded Al-Ahli Arab Hospital. However, it's not clear who is responsible for the attack.
Hananya Naftali's hospital tweet
On Tuesday (October 17), the social media star claimed that Israel was to blame for the blast at the Gaza hospital.
"BREAKING: Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza. A multiple number of terrorists are dead," he wrote.
"It's heartbreaking that Hamas is launching rockets from hospitals, Mosques, schools, and using civilians as human shields."
Palestinian officials say it was caused by an Israeli air strike, the BBC <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67140250> reports. However, Israel's military claims it was the result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad which the group has denied.
Naftali is an Israeli human rights activist with more than 350,000 followers and has been continuously tweeting about the conflict.
He describes himself as: "That Israeli who talks to the camera about peace in the Middle East."
We're also getting videos claiming the rocket that hit the hospital was a Hamas rocket that misfired, however we were not able to verify any of theseÉ <https://t.co/96mtw2nGtO> pic.twitter.com/96mtw2nGtO
- Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1714360668818739260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> October 17, 2023
Israeli internet star apologises
Following the uproar, Naftali quickly apologised on <https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/topic/twitter/> Twitter, claiming he was simply quoting an article he had seen on Reuters.
"Earlier today I shared a report that was published on Reuters about the bombing at the hospital in Gaza which falsely stated Israel struck the hospital," he wrote.
"I mistakenly shared this information in a since deleted post in which I referenced Hamas' routine use of hospitals to store weapons caches and conduct terrorist activity."
He said "I apologize for this error" and added: "As the IDF does not bomb hospitals, I assumed Israel was targeting one of the Hamas bases in Gaza."
"It is known that Hamas is using civilians as human shields, it is a war crime and a crime against humanity. This should be the focus."
Earlier today I shared a report that was published on <https://twitter.com/Reuters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> @reuters about the bombing at the hospital in Gaza which falsely stated Israel struck the hospital. I mistakenly shared this information in a since deleted post in which I referenced Hamas' routine use of hospitals to storeÉ
- Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) <https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1714400598991261966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> October 17, 2023
Naftali shares new tweet
The internet user then shared a new tweet about the blast, <https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1714346975326330957> writing: "The mysterious explosion in Gaza. Hamas blames Israel for this."
"I believe it is either a failed rocket that hit the hospital or something that was done on purpose in order to get international support."
Israel has been bombing Gaza for more than a week now after the Palestinian military group Hamas launched a surprise attack.
The latest figures from the UN <https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2023/10/latest-occupied-palestinian-territoryisrael> reveal that 4,200 have been killed in just 10 days and more than a million people have been displaced.
(5) Expert analysis shows Hospital missile originating in Israel
Video: new expert analysis shows hospital missile originating in Israel
by<https://skwawkbox.org/author/skwawkbox/> SKWAWKBOX (SW)21/10/2023
Claims made by Israeli government and supporters collapse further
(6) Israeli MK-84 AIR BURST bomb (supplied by USA) struck al-Ahli hospital grounds
{the first part is audio; watch the video from 19:07 to 23:08}
Compelling video evidence points to Israeli AIR BURST bomb striking al-Ahli hospital grounds, killing hundreds of Palestinian civilians as they slept on courtyard grounds adjacent to the parking lot 10/19/2023
Mike Adams
Thanks to the investigative work of <https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64060> Information Liberation (Chris Menahan) and "Lord Bebo" (<https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo> @MyLordBebo on Twitter / X), there is now compelling video evidence that Israel bombed the al-Ahli hospital grounds using an "air burst" bomb, and that Israel likewise also bombed the streets near the al-Quds hospital a day later. ...
It turns out that all the media outlets claiming the al-Ahli bombing was not the fault of Israel have missed critical pieces of evidence. Here is a run down of some of those critical pieces of evidence.
Critical evidence that points to an Israeli air burst bomb
First, when considering how 500+ people could have been killed on the ground when the hospital building structures were not directly struck, we must realize that the al-Ahli grounds adjacent to the parking lot were occupied by displaced refugees sleeping on the ground. (<https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/17/photos-an-israeli-air-raid-on-al-ahli-arab-hospital-kills-an-estimated-500> Source)
Thus, they were not in the hospital buildings, and they were not shielded by the buildings. They absorbed the full force of the strike as a giant fireball engulfed the parking lot and surrounding courtyard areas. This is why post-bombing videos show so much carnage on the grounds adjacent to the parking lot. That's where people were laying when the explosion destroyed them.
Secondly, the fact that there is no crater in the parking lot is consistent with an air burst bomb that detonates at a predetermined altitude above the ground in order to maximize damage. The evidence of this air burst is clearly visible in the tweets and videos shown below, where the hoods and roofs of multiple vehicles are shown to be crushed by a powerful force from above. This damage pattern is only possible with an air burst weapon, not a ground burst rocket or bomb.
Notably, Jihadi forces do not possess air burst ordnance capabilities. Only Israel has that.
This can not be a misfired missile. It would fall to the ground, cause less damage and not produce downwards pressure on cars! ...
If a bomb had actually detonated upon impact with the parking lot, these vehicles would have been blasted laterally, and they would have been blown to the side, showing lateral structural damage, not the curved, bent roofs and hoods they currently show. This damage is only consistent with an air burst weapon detonating above them, creating a pressure wave that destroys anything beneath it, including the hundreds of Palestinians sleeping on the courtyard grounds (whose bodies would have been crushed by the blast wave and then burned by the fireball).
Thirdly, the sound of the missile's arrival is consistent with other known Israeli missile strikes, with a characteristic audible signature that sounds nothing like typical Hamas or Jihadi rockets (which are crude, low-velocity weapons compared with Israel's weapons.
The following side-by-side comparison video shows a known Israeli bombing strike on the right, followed by the al-Ahli hospital strike on the left. Their sound characteristics are nearly identical and they do not sound like Hamas rockets.
Same <https://t.co/M74chXHdtY> pic.twitter.com/M74chXHdtY
- Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) <https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1714742819670139126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> October 18, 2023
Fourth, Hamas rockets do not possess the explosive power captured on video in the al-Ahli hospital strike. The very large fireball and explosive effects are not possible with the low-tech, crudely-made Hamas or Jihadi rockets.
Fifth, the rockets being fired by PIJ were being fired away from the al-Ahli hospital on the night of the hospital bombing. Yet an Israeli jet flew above the hospital in the correct formation to release a guidance bomb such as the MK-84. The explosion occurred a few seconds after the Israeli jet deployed its bomb and activated flares in order to evade possible ground-to-air missiles. This is clearly shown in the following video and still frame: ...
Summary of new evidence that points the figure at Israel being responsible for the al-Ahli hospital atrocity
- MK-84 air burst bomb dropped by Israeli aircraft captured in the video of the bombing.
- Air burst explains the concave vehicle hoods and roofs, as well as the lack of a parking lot crater.
- Civilians sleeping in the courtyard explains the high casualty rate, even without structural damage to the buildings.
- Israel's denials carry no credibility because Israel has been previously caught lying about its atrocities.
- Israel has already bombed Gazan hospitals at least 51 times since Oct. 7th, and Israel leaders have repeatedly promised to utterly destroy Gazan infrastructure while bombing schools, hospitals, water treatment facilities and mosques.
- Israel has the motive to carry out this attack and blame it on Hamas in order to further justify genocide against Palestinians so that Israel can eliminate them all and steal their land.
For the record, none of this excuses the Hamas terror attacks against Israeli civilians. What Hamas did against Israeli citizens was clearly a war crime and a brutal display of the complete abandonment of the core principles that should guide humanity. Yet, at the same time, Israel's murderous brutality against innocent Palestinian civilians is also a war crime, and one war crime does not cancel out another.
This is why I call for peace and diplomacy. The world must demand a cease fire, diplomatic interventions, humanitarian aid and a full investigation of the bombings of hospitals across Gaza. Israel, in particular, must be stopped from escalating its war crimes against the Palestinian people and from trying to engineer yet more atrocities that it can leverage to justify a campaign that clearly qualifies as "ethnic cleansing."
(7) "We heard the sound of a missile launched from a plane, and a second later we felt the explosion"
https://www.972mag.com/al-ahli-hospital-gaza-blast/
{note the damage, but the absence of a crater}
'A complete massacre': Survivors recount the horrors of Gaza's Al-Ahli Hospital blast
While the provenance of the explosion remains contested, the scene on the ground at the Gaza City hospital was one of total devastation.
By Ibtisam Mahdi and Ruwaida Kamal Amer
October 19, 2023
At almost exactly 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 17, an almighty explosion rocked Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. Without warning, a missile fell directly onto the courtyard of the hospital and burst into flames; the impact, and the ensuing fires - including dozens of cars that were set alight - reportedly killed hundreds among the thousands of people who were sheltering there after having been displaced from their homes in the eastern parts of the besieged enclave.
Hamas immediately declared Israel responsible for the blast; Israel quickly denied the charge, claiming that the explosion was caused by a misfired rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad - a claim <https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/oct/18/israel-hamas-war-live-news-gaza-hospital-west-bank-update-joe-biden-visit-protests-latest-updates?page=with:block-652fbf258f080ddf6ee14034> echoed by President Biden in his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday. Even as the narrative war raged on in the international media, however, the scene on the ground was one of total devastation.
A woman who was inside one of the hospital buildings when the bomb exploded told +972 that children who just moments earlier were playing in the courtyard suddenly "fell to the ground with their blood flowing. I witnessed a complete massacre that no mind can comprehend." Medical staff from the nearby Al-Shifa Hospital rushed to the scene after the missile hit, finding body parts scattered all around the courtyard.
Muhammad Al-Naqla, the hospital's public relations director, explained that the hospital - which is one of the oldest in the strip, and is run by the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem - is not affiliated with any political faction. It provides both health and social services, and was considered a safe haven for the residents of the surrounding areas as well as those displaced from the eastern region of Gaza City.
Two days prior to the blast, Al-Naqla said, the hospital received a warning call from the Israeli army telling them to stop receiving patients. "We were not informed of the need to evacuate the hospital, which is known from previous wars to be a safe refuge for residents," he added. After that warning, hospital staff made contact with the Archbishop of Canterbury in the U.K., head of the worldwide Anglican church, who <https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2023/10/anglican-run-al-ahli-arab-hospital-in-gaza-damaged-by-israeli-rocket-fire-as-conflict-continues.aspx> called on Israel to protect the hospital, its patients, and its staff - after the hospital had <https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/attacks-health-care-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories-12-15-october-2023> already been targeted by Israeli airstrikes just three days earlier.
<https://static.972mag.com/www/uploads/2023/10/F231018AM15-1.jpg> Palestinians inspect the damage caused from an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Gaza City, October 18, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)
Although the blast occurred in the courtyard, Al-Naqla described significant destruction to the hospital itself. "All the buildings were damaged, and all the windows and doors were shattered," he said. "Communication networks, water, electricity, and internet infrastructure were also damaged, along with the burns treatment department - considered one of the most important departments operating at the present time - the physical therapy department, the church and mosque."
Al-Naqla explained that he expected a full inventory of the damage to take around two days. But while most of the displaced people sheltering there have been evacuated, the hospital continues to provide urgent care for those who need it. "Right now, there are 10 patients still in the hospital - people who had previously been operated on after their homes were targeted, and who cannot be taken out," he said.
'Is there a greater injustice than this?'
Muhammad Al-Dahdar is still in a state of shock. The 46-year-old from the Shuja'iya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City was sheltering at the hospital courtyard with his family when it was bombed.
"We heard the sound of a missile launched from a plane, and a second later we felt the explosion," he said. "I flew 10 meters away from where I was sitting, sustaining several wounds throughout my body."
<https://static.972mag.com/www/uploads/2023/10/C15I0196.jpg> Palestinians' bodies are removed in the aftermath of the explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Gaza City, October 18, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun)
Al-Dahdar explained that during the nights, the men sheltering at the hospital cleared the courtyard so that the women and children could have some privacy. That meant that while he and his son were sitting behind the hospital walls when the blast occurred, his wife and children were inside the courtyard.
"I became like a madman, calling for my son and searching for my family among the wounded," he recalled. "It was dark and there was fire everywhere, and a smell of blood and burned meat. I felt like I was stepping on body parts. The situation was very difficult and painful."
Minutes later, an ambulance arrived at the scene, their lights making it easier to see the devastation caused by the explosion. Al-Dahdar discovered that his wife, his son, and three of his daughters were seriously wounded, while another two were missing.
Another survivor, Abu Muhammad Al-Turkman, is unable to speak after losing his wife and five children in the bombing. According to one of his relatives, Al-Turkman could not comprehend that he was collecting the body parts of his children and his wife, incapable of distinguishing one from the other. He placed their remains in a nylon bag, before a relative prayed over them and buried them next to his home at Al-Turkman's request.
<https://static.972mag.com/www/uploads/2023/10/F231018AM04-1.jpg> Palestinians inspect the damage caused from an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Gaza City, October 18, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)
It didn't take long for news of the massacre to reach the rest of the Gaza Strip. In the southern city of Khan Younis, people were crying in the streets when they found out.
"When I saw the news of the targeting of Al-Ahli Hospital, I did not believe the incident at all," said Ibrahim Odeh, 27. "Then pictures and videos began to be published on social media, and I could not bear the scenes of children scattered in pieces. Is there a greater injustice than this? I burst into tears. I could not bear it."
Another Khan Younis resident, 30-year-old Enas Rizek, told +972: "The neighbors heard me crying from the dreadful shock. This hospital is where my friend works, and it serves citizens across the Gaza Strip.
(8) Absence of craters in Gaza hospital attack proves it was an MK-84 guided air-burst bomb, & done by Israel
<https://en.abna24.com/story/1402369>
Absence of craters in Gaza hospital attack suggests use of Ôproximity fuseÕ: Ammunition specialist
Retired military officer, ammunition specialist tells Anadolu there is strong possibility that attack carried out with MK-84 guided bomb
Serhat Tutak |19.10.2023 - Update : 19.10.2023
ANKARA
The Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza was carried out with a "proximity fuse" bomb that explodes high above the ground, an expert told Anadolu on Wednesday.
Retired military officer and ammunition specialist Engin Yigit said there was a strong possibility that the attack was carried out with an MK-84 guided bomb.
Yigit said considering the images of the moment of the attack, the probability that the ammunition was a JDAM-equipped 2,000-pound (910-kilogram) Mark 84 (MK-84) bomb increased.
He noted that Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is the name of one of the guidance kits. "You can make the bomb guided with a kit that you attach to the front or back of MAK-82, MAK-83, MAK-84 bombs."
"JDAM is a type of kit that allows precise delivery of the bomb to the target," he said. "The said kit attached to the bomb makes the bomb smart and provides precision strike capability."
Yigit said there are several fuses to detonate the bombs and some can explode on impact, while others can explode at the desired moment and height before impact.
"Bombs with proximity fuses or proximity sensors may not create craters where they explode," he said. "The hospital attack in Gaza may have been similar. How high the bomb explodes can be set by the user."
The strike by Israel on the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital killed at least 471 victims, according to revised figures by the Gaza Health Ministry.
The conflict began Oct. 7 when Hamas initiated Operation Al-Aqsa Flood -- a multi-pronged surprise attack that included a barrage of rocket launches and infiltrations into Israel by land, sea and air.
Hamas said the incursion was in retaliation for the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and growing violence by Israeli settlers.
The Israeli military then launched Operation Swords of Iron against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
At least 3,478 Palestinians have been killed. The death toll in Israel stands at more than 1,400.
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