IDF: We supplied 300 liters of fuel to Shifa, Hamas barred hospital from getting it
IDF: We supplied 300 liters of fuel to Shifa, Hamas barred hospital from getting it
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The Israel Defense Forces says it supplied 300 liters of fuel for “urgent medical purposes” at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but Hamas prevented the medical center from receiving it.
Early this morning, troops placed the jerrycans near the hospital, as had been coordinated in advance with officials at Shifa.
Waiting for confirmation this actually happened because the article about the premature babies dying due to lack of power asked the doctors if Israel was willing to help to which they responded that "no, Israel isn't responding to our requests at all, so we don't know".
What in the fuck would 70 gallons of fuel do for a hospital? A few hours of power? Is that supposed to be a genuine attempt at aid? Less than $200 of fuel?
Interesting question.
Apparently an ICU bed requires ~200 W of power.
I don't know the type of fuel or generator, but I found an arbitrary model that can output 1800W, enough for 9 ICU beds. Four liters of gasoline provide 5400Wh, which means they lasts 3 hrs.
So I estimate 300 liters of gasoline could have powered 9 ICU beds for over nine days.
BBC already checked - The hospitals head of surgery said this would be equal to half hour of generator power. Half. Hour.
You seem to be parroting this a bit since I've run into it several times now... Do Surgeons magically know how to run electrical these days? Would you take electrical advice or knowledge from a surgeon? Did they specify what they'd be running on the generators?
I can believe that if you run 100% of everything in the hospital on it that it would run out quickly... What about just running the bare minimum? Further... Where's this magical BBC link? You've never linked it but just stated "well they said" repeatedly.
A small hospital generator would burn that on about 3 hours. This is a dog and pony show.
That sounds like a reasonable amount to provide, since they can provide another shipment 2h later if it actually goes to the hospital. (At full power it'd be 30 minutes, but I assume critical loads only could be powered a lot longer).
The evidence provided is weak though, and it could easily be staged. We didn't get lucky by having Hamas publicly confirm that they indeed did it, but it'd be inline with their other statements that show utter disregard for Palestinian life.
Testing the waters before sending more is a good tactic
What if they send more and Hamas intercepted it as they did with this one?
And no one is even commenting on the elephant in the room. 300 liters of diesel!
Am I the only one who thinks this is a ridiculously low amount?
Not big surprise jpost and timesofisrael are the only ones reporting on this.
If you need any more evidence of media bias, here it is.
BBC confirms the head of surgery on the hospital already mentioned, this is enough for about half an hour of generator power.
this is a smart move for the first delivery. And the result is why !
It was delivered by Jerry can, by hand from troops in the area. They coordinated the drop with the hospital and apparently Hamas. Presumably if this worked they could have arranged for a more regular supply. But that's 2 barrels of fuel. You could run quite a bit off that.
And what have we learnt about the reliability and credibility of the IDF ?
There's a video floating around of Hamas turning away the fuel. Pretty sad situation
Sure, but it's such a small amount of fuel for a hospital that it makes no sense to even do it.
Should Hamas give them all the fuel they could use? Sure! But I'm wondering how vulnerable they'll be if they also have no fuel to fight back against the indiscriminate killings from the IDF...
Disappointing if true
Not saying it's not true, but I don't think timesofisrael.com is a particularly unbiased source in this conflict.
Well that explains my phrasing, doesn't it
Nothing Israel says about Gaza is true.