Playing devil's advocate here of course but if there was a weapons cache inside the mosque, or a terrorist tunnel, why would you expect that the tv cameras would pick it up? Were there tv cameras inside the mosque?
Why do you assume that Hamas don't use mosques as military bases?
One thing that has repeatedly troubled me during this conflict is the lack of evidence.
I've highlighted before that I think the IDF lie. Attempt to cover things up. For the interests of neutrality (and to stop the usual people bleating), I'd be loath to trust everything Hamas state too.
In general, I'm a cynic. I like things to be proven with good, reliable, objective evidence before I come to conclusions.
The comment about Hamas possibly using mosques as military bases. Again, we're dealing with an assertion here. I know Jeb wasn't making a direct accusation, rather asking for people to consider that his mosque question is not entirely beyond the realms of reality.
But, again, I ask for evidence before I say yes or no.
On this point, this is not a defence or in support of Hamas, but we're told that they're firing so many rockets a day, that houses are booby trapped, that they've misfired rockets into UNRWA schools.
Modern war is played out on our TV screens. We get to see what's happening. Speaking from the UK, I've seen footage of Hamas rockets being fired. It would be naive to deny it's happening. But to the extent the IDF claim? Where's the evidence?
Shell a school - "fire was coming from the vicinity". Where's the evidence? What does "vicinity" mean? Nobody seems to be asking these questions and pushing for the evidence.
We're told that there's loads of tunnels. Granted, some are targeted remotely. But others aren't. I've seen one IDF video of a tunnel. Where's the evidence of the vast tunnel network?
I also find some of the IDF evidence to be quite crude, and to be anything but evidence. Gimmicky cartoons. Regarding the rocket misfire allegation, the "evidence" consisted of an aerial street map with houses with circles drawn round them and lines drawn from the houses alleging where the recent misfired rockets ended up. Again, isn't this more of a claim than cold, hard evidence?
Again, to stop this being interpreted as an anti-Israel/IDF rant, I adopt such cynicism and doubtfulness in other aspects of life.
Not that they can be justified, in my opinion, I'd feel that the IDF and Israel would be on a stronger footing if they evidenced their claims a bit more strongly, and this might lessen the uproar against their actions.
To Jeb and Nicky, it might be that this evidence exists and might be more prevalent in the Israeli media than the UK media etc, but I'm just not seeing any real evidence, personally.
