Joe Rogan on media: what the evidence says · JRE #2143
SUBJECT: MEDIA
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
Well, they were also the ones that said the New York Times said that that bomb landed in the hospital and killed 500 people. And it apparently landed in the parking lot and killed a small number of people. And it probably was not from Israel but was actually some one of the Islamic terrorists had launched a bomb and it accidentally landed in the parking lot.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
The core of the account holds up. After the October 17, 2023 blast at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, The New York Times ran a top-of-site headline saying an Israeli strike had killed 500, attributing the figure to the Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry, and on October 23 published an editors' note conceding its coverage relied too heavily on unverified Hamas claims. Analysis of video and imagery, including experts cited by BBC Verify, indicated the explosion struck the hospital car park (parking lot) rather than the main building, consistent with a failed rocket section and propellant fire rather than a large air-dropped bomb. US intelligence assessed with high confidence that Israel was not responsible and that the blast came from a misfired Palestinian militant rocket, with a lower-confidence attribution to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and put the death toll at roughly 100 to 300, well below the initial 500. Rogan's phrasing of a very small casualty count understates those revised estimates, and the ultimate cause remains contested by some independent investigators, so the specifics are imprecise even though the broad narrative is supported.