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There's a few videos of midcity launches from neutral third party newsI don't care what your take on it is, I'm addressing the claims.
The "stockpiles" can't be under the civilian buildings or infrastructure struck by Israel, because it is in the city, and the rockets being fired are overwhelmingly not. Israel has not claimed almost any of their strikes in Gaza proper were related to missile depots, the only tower strike they addressed specifically they claimed had "intelligence operations" in it which is a bunch of Muhammads with cellphones sitting in a room. None of the towers have been struck to the underground, surface demolition only, and the strikes they've done to hit alleged underground targets have actually been low angle strikes that don't demolish the building underneath. The Al Jazeera strike is a good example.
You'd have to imagine these fuckhuge fiberglass rockets are being shipped twenty minutes across a complex network of tunnels, it's not likely, to say the least, even if the Palestinians had infinite gasoline and good shipping and lots of room to work with.
Another way to look at it is that despite dozens of buildings hit in Gaza proper (not bothering to hit underground), rocketfire accelerated, it didn't stop or even decelerate a bit. If Israel is trying to hobble Hamas, it's doing a shit job, yet the IDF insists publicly that it hopes to strike more of the same targets and that the mission is going well.
In other words, these strikes aren't really about Hamas, are they?
If anyone can find a video of these rockets being shipped, secondary detonations, or any street view demonstrating mid-city launches (not Israelis leveling buildings for fun) then be my guest, I'm very legitimately interested, until then it simply doesn't pass the sniff test.
Yeah, and people keep buying. It's pretty hilarious.
from 2014 but they use the same tactics still. Israel has also claimed that they are hitting missile depots: