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I got into an argument over the Hamas-IDF conflict on LinkedIn of all places, where I was arbitrarily accused of believing Hamas' propaganda about the Al-Ahli Arab hospital explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosion. I didn't know what they were referring to at the time so I looked into it. The Hamas accused the IDF of bombing this Anglican church-run hospital while the IDF accused Hamas for a failed rocket launch.

The NPR article about this incident https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206795861/heres-the-available-evidence-of-what-happened-at-al-ahli-arab-hospital-in-gaza interviewed a former US military officer who asserted that it is unlikely it was an Israeli bomb because the damage would have been way more extensive. 😰

In the end I am inclined to believe this version as it doesn't really paint the IDF in a particularly good light, even if I now don't believe they bombed this particular hospital. And it is a sore reminder that Palestinians are stuck between Hamas and the IDF.