re: Hamas militants caught assembling and firing rockets next to Journalist Hotel

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The French reporter indicated that the site was used the week before. That was the report at night when he ducked. The Indian reporter referred to it in his report.

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And his footage included children playing at the site the next day.

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What was interesting was that the French reporter did not mention any morning missile launch.

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Could it be the French reporter was not there to witness the event? Or, that his report was prepared before the events captured by the Indians, but he was unable to get the report out of Gaza until the ceasefire went into effect? It's not like reporters were allowed to broadcast uncensored from Gaza.

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More than likely the second explosion was from detonating the site to make sure it was clear.

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So Hamas erected a blue tarp over the site to prepare for EOD but they did not bother to build any sort of barrier to redirect the blast effects or absorb any of the shrapnel despite the proximity of the hotel and other civilian structures. And of course there was no crowd on site to watch them do their EOD work, but in the immediate aftermath they came out in droves, to include children playing at the site. Just one question, what were the implements the children were playing on if the site had been cleared by EOD? Shouldn't those implements have been destroyed in the explosion?

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Same site.

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Sorry, but too many inconsistencies to agree with your conclusion unless you are willing to admit the site was used more than once.