IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ

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Footage to date fails to prove Gaza complex was nerve centre for attacks on Israel, as military had claimed

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Well they did give Hamas 3 weeks to clear out due to international pressure.

Ah yes, which is why the only evidence Israel gives is of guns behind an MRI machine... An MRI machine which, as you may know, is extremely dangerous to operate in the presence of metal.

When did al-Shifa lose power again? Definitely not 3 weeks ago...

It had power up until the start of the IDF siege, so 5 days ago at most.

The big power hungry machine is definitely what you want to be spending your fuel reserves on when there is a nicu you're trying to operate. Some common sense does go a long way in this situations. I recommend trying to use some.

That would be a correct assessment:

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.2020192084

Radiology departments are major energy consumers within a hospital through operation of CT and MRI scanners, which require energy in the range of 0.5–30 kWh per examination, with peak consumption reaching beyond 100 kW for a short time period.

Note that the low side of that are CT scanners, MRI are in the 25kWh to 30kWh range per exam.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344207928_Emergency_Power_Supply_for_NICU_of_a_Hospital_by_Solar-Wind-Based_System_a_Step_Towards_Sustainable_Development_Journal_of_Solar_Energy_Research_JSER_53_506-515

The neonatal ward of the hospital under study contains 10 phototherapy devices and 4 incubators, with their consumed kWh during the day, equal to 1.08, and 10.76, respectively [16].

So just under 12kWh to operate those 14 NICU devices for 24 hours.

So the energy to perform 1 MRI exam would at a minimum power 28 NICU devices for 24 hours.

On top of that, the peak power usage of an MRI can reach 100kW!

Don't forget, you're not only powering the machine itself, but also the cooling it needs to stay operational.

More info:

https://www.vitalscan.health/how-radiology-can-be-greener/

An MRI machine can use up to 400kWh per day across 12 hours or 12000kWh per month. This electrical consumption is equal to running 40 average houses for a month

And yet Hamas managed to erase any evidence of their supposed tunnel system completely? The IDF was claiming a day or two ago that Hamas concreted over and "ceramic'ed over" all the tunnels during the 3 days of the hospital siege.

Yet the IDF could show no evidence of those covered up tunnels either.

Well, if they were allowed to blast holes through everything they wanted, it wouldn't be such a problem to find these tunnels quickly. Are you okay with that, or you rather wait while the IDF does a less destructive search of the hospital grounds?

All they need to do is show freshly concreted over areas. But they couldn't even do that. They showed nothing of the sort in the videos they've released of the basement.

They will show fresh concerted areas and you will claim that's not good enough, they need to dig it out and show tunnels. They will show tunnels, and you will claim that's not good enough, they need to show rockets. They will show rockets, and you will claim that's not good enough, they need to show terrorists. They will show terrorists, and that won't be good enough because they need to show hostages. They will show hostages, and that won't be good enough because it's the IDF, and nothing they will show will ever be good enough.

When they couldn't show anything at all right off and instead several things that appeared to be propaganda and lies (to the point that even mainstream media is reporting on it), no, I won't believe it.

Them coming back days later to claim any of those is time enough for them to doctor up the claimed evidence.

This is just standard propaganda making, the likes of which we saw all the time out of Russia, for example.

You're a disgusting human being.

With that out of the way, they've been caught fabricating evidence. Multiple times. I'm not sure why you're still believing anything they say.

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