(10-18-2023, 03:17 PM)mikesez Wrote: The lack of a crater is a compelling piece of evidence.  The explosion was not from any correctly functioning rocket or from anything dropped from a plane.  It was either from a smallish stationary explosive, a cruise missile flying low, or a failed rocket.  In theory, one weak weld on one of those Hamas sugar rockets can send it sideways after it launches.

Israel would not have been able to plant a stationary explosive.  Israel has lots of cruise missiles but has not used them recently.  Or at least has not mentioned using them during press briefings.  Israel has lots of solid fuel rockets that might malfunction, but you have to assume their failure rate is lower than anything Hamas has. 

I'm still bothered by Israel presenting incorrect info at first, but it does look more like an accident, possibly Israeli, more probably by Hamas or PIJ.