A Probably Lunatic View of the Gaza Hospital Explosion

Here's a little bit of probably errant nonsense I'd like to add to the discussion of the Gaza hospital "attack" that has attracted so much attention the last few days.


Before making this comment, Green Eagle wants to declare that he has suddenly remembered that he is an expert on bomb and explosion damage.  Not real bomb and explosion damage, about which he knows no more than any other internet blabber, but fake bomb and explosion damage.  Over my career as a motion picture art director, I have had a few occasions to replicate the after-effects of explosions.  We did that by looking at pictures of similar damage we could find, and trying to make something that looks like that.


Well, let's look at the "crater" at the hospital, shown here in an enlarged section of a photo from the BBC:


There it is- a small hole about three or four feet across, and maybe two feet deep, with debris scattered in one direction from the hole.  What I don't see here, apart from anything of the magnitude of an actual bomb explosion, is any blackening around the hole.  The research we looked at almost all showed burned fuel or explosive residue in the hole and around it.  Also, I do not remember an explosion that only caused a handful of debris on one side of the explosion, and yet which caused vehicles on the other side to have burst into flame and be destroyed.  If this were a movie or TV set, I would give it an F.  Here is my guess about what really happened:  After the Palestinian rocket disaster, some idiot decided, in the middle of the night, to send a couple of guys with a pick and shovels to go out and dig a hole in the parking lot, to make it look like an Israeli bomb had fallen.  Well, it was harder than they expected, and this is as far as they got before morning came, and they had to stop.  


And as the country music guy says, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.



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