Talk:Al-Quds Hospital, Aleppo

So, What Happened?
We never had any talk page here? Ok ... I never solved this one. I have some thoughts, would like to see if anyone else does, etc.

Again, MSF heard the place was hit twice, five minutes apart.
 * first, the entrance to the emergency room - location unclear - only damage seen (minor) is just inside the main entrance, down a long hall from anything else.
 * next, the emergency room itself, and also the top two floors, were attacked and destroyed, presumably by two simultaneous blasts (?).

I see some clues of an internal blast, and some of en external blast nearby, and none for a direct hit, exterior-to-interior blast. But I'm no expert. Will be adding some notes soon. --Caustic Logic (talk) 06:40, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Using CNN's video of the security cameras, and the notes from Channel 4's video, ... Dr. Muhammad Maaz left work at the intensive care unit At 0:43, he's dutifully locking the door, it seems, putting the key in his pocket, taking it with him as he heads downstairs. Locked intensive care might make sense. Next shift might have the key, might already be in there. Anyway...

The stairs suggest at least one floor above and one blow this. He was about to start his night shift in the emergency room (should be around 9:45, 9:50 pm) He goes downstairs (one floor below), down another flight, onto another floor (two floors below), apparently ground floor (if so, he was on floor 3 to start with). He comes towards the camera and turns to our left. That might be another stairwell he takes down, or the emergency room. It might extend behind that left wall. Just then, perhaps before he can even step in (or down), the blast happens, seemingly from the other side of that wall. It's bright, like a bomb detonation right there, not like a wave of rubble from a massive strike ripping in from the outside.

This seems to be the second blast. Some agitated reactions earlier in the video suggest there was some unclear noise outside but nearby that everyone heard (the first "direct attack" on the hospital). They seem a little worried but then relax just before the blast inside (doors on the floor above are flung open). The second blast was said to hit the emergency room and he was said to be killed, so that must be the emergency room. Did someone have a bomb in there? --Caustic Logic (talk) 15:10, 26 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Don't think much can be made out of those videos. but some observations. Before the blast, he appears to be on the ground floor close to exist (TV monitor, clock, fire extinguishers, some posters and key access, possibly snack bar, all that only on this floor). He is off camera before the blast, allowing easy editing, no bodies or hard evidence anybody is killed. Blast comes horizontally into the wall, as they tend to come in many of those likely staged recordings. There is quite big flash which does suggest it exploded close to the wall, ground floor level outside of the building, not just a shock wave from a distance, and not it coming through the roof. Door swings open from a blast below, again with a flash, all suggesting ground floor explosion close to the entrance. No people around when door swings open, although it was busy before that; again, staging is easy. In conclusion, no hard evidence it is aerial explosion and not something else (car bomb/hell fire/large mortar), and that it actually killed somebody. Although it is not totally excluded either. --Resup (talk) 17:16, 26 February 2017 (UTC)