The Palestinians do not have weapons capable of destroying the hospital in Gaza, says Margelletti (adviser to Minister Crosetto)
According to Andrea Margelletti, president of CeSI and advisor to Minister Crosetto, Hamas and Islamic Jihad do not possess weapons "capable of causing destruction like that reported in the hospital in Gaza". However, according to Project Owl, analysts and collaborators of the New York Times, Hamas' version is not credible
The Hamas and Islamic Jihad militiamen "are not in possession of weapons capable of causing destruction like that reported to the hospital in Gaza". Andrea Margelletti, president of the Center for International Studies and advisor to the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, told the Press .
THE EXCHANGE OF ACCUSATIONS ABOUT THE EXPLOSION AT THE GAZA HOSPITAL
Hamas claims that the hospital was bombed by Israel, which however blames Islamic Jihad, another extremist group in the Gaza Strip. The United States, based on the information in its possession, believes that the responsibility for the explosion at al Ahli hospital is not Israeli . At the moment, however, there is no certain element that would allow us to accurately reconstruct what happened.
WHAT MARGELLETTI SAID
According to Margelletti, "from what appears from open sources, Hamas or […] Palestinian Islamic Jihad would not be in possession of weapons capable of causing damage such as that caused to the hospital."
“To make a building collapse”, continues the well-known military analyst who was already an advisor to other defense ministers, “it must fall on itself or implode. To make the building implode it is necessary to pull a vector so powerful that it enters the building without exploding on impact, reaches the foundations and blows them up so as to make the structure collapse on itself. This is what is called a bunker buster , a scenario that can occur with weapons in the possession of a series of nations that have in their tactical planning to hit the bunkers or underground structures, located even ten floors underground, where the weapons are often hidden. arsenals. From open sources there would be no weapons of this kind in the possession of Hamas or Jihad, but the lack of open sources does not necessarily mean that they do not have them. All the weapons used by the Palestinians are contact weapons, they explode on impact with the target, weapons that cause damage, they can take down a floor of a hospital but the hospital doesn't go down and causes 500 deaths. Because if there were 500 deaths, but also 300 or 200 deaths, the building imploded."
THE PROJECT OWL VERSION
According to Project Owl , an open source intelligence (OSINT) group that also collaborates with the New York Times , Islamic Jihad cannot be ruled out because the damage reported at the Gaza hospital site – a crater about a meter wide, as the journalist Cecilia Sala also explained – it is compatible with the rockets in the group's possession but not with the bombs used by Israel.
What was hit, then, was not the hospital but the hospital car park. The impact of the rocket did not explode the building but the windows, hitting the Palestinians who had taken refuge in the structure. Based on Project Owl's analyses, Sala writes that "it is credible that there were dozens of deaths, it is very unlikely that the deaths were hundreds" as Hamas claims.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ospedale-gaza-responsabilita-hamas-jihad-islamico/ on Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:29:31 +0000.