Israel-Palestine Mega Fact Check!

Although between 10% and 20% of the rockets fired by Hamas and other militant organizations likely misfire and land within Gaza, a significant percentage of these will land in open spaces and cause little or no damage. Those that do hit buildings or other infrastructure are unlikely to create a significant radius of damage since they pack very little firepower (approximately 3kg to 20kg of explosives) compared to the 500-pound (225kg of explosives), 1000-pound (450kg), and 2000-pound (900kg) bombs dropped by the IDF air force. Palestinian rockets are less likely to hit smaller targets like vehicles, but these are more likely to suffer significant damage. Hitting smaller targets like civilians is even less likely, but death or severe injury is of course likely.

Meanwhile, the IDF has high-technology aircrafts armed with both traditional and smart bombs able to precisely hit targets. The IDF has thus far dropped at least forty-five thousand bombs on Gaza, including thousands of 2000-pound (900kg) bombs. This is in addition to the Hellfire missiles, tank shells, mortars, and other munitions employed by the IDF. IDF soldiers have also repeatedly filmed themselves detonating buildings and other infrastructure within Gaza.

Suggesting that the vast amount of death and destruction across Gaza are due to hundreds of small misfired Palestinian rockets—as opposed to an estimated 70,000 tons or more of IDF bombs and other munitions precisely aimed at Gazan infrastructure—is quite unreasonable.