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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And the source of the intelligence is probably Israel itself?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From the AP article:

U.S. officials had previously pointed to classified intelligence, obtained independently from the Israelis, to offer support for Israel’s raid.

The US and UK (possibly more, I lost track at some point) have been running surveillance flights over Gaza for pretty much the entire duration of the war. There are plenty of eyes on Israel's military operations and ways to gather intelligence inside Gaza.

NYT themselves came to the conclusion that al-Shifa was used for military purposes based on Hamas' own propaganda. It's always been a question of how central it was to Hamas' operations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

That's an editorial. And the bullet list of "evidence" is outdated or irrelevant. The existence of a tunnel means nothing. Every modern hospital in existence has tunnels or basement levels. What was happening a decade or more ago is irrelevant. To strike a protected target you must have timely, well backed, intelligence. Basically you don't do it without a smoking gun like radio direction finding their command frequency to that location, tracking movements of runners, or corroborating stories from prisoners.

Just shrugging and pointing to the terrorist label doesn't meet the requirement.