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Hot Air has a great post on what looks like more 'fauxtography', as they call it.
This picture by AP photographer Nasser Nasser, taken on August 6th, comes vis that post, and shows what purports to be a car hit by an Israeli missile:
You and I might think that it looks more like a car which has been given the Basil Fawlty treatment with a couple of hammers. Especially when you look at what a Katyusha rocket - less powerful than an Israeli missile - does to a car (via Little Green Footballs):
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Didn't Fisk and others claim that the IAF had sent bombs directly through the centre of the Red Cross symbol on a number of ambulance roofs? This idea seemed so mad for so many reasons that I truly did not understand how anyone walking around aside a lunatic asylum could possibly believe it.
Perhaps I should have offered a reward to any person who managed to paint a cross on top of Fisk's head? ("To show solidarity with our Christian brothers who are being slaughtered at will by the Zionist pigs, Mr. Fisk.")
An AGM 114 Hellfire missile (one of the IDF's principal air-to-ground munitions) is capable of defeating a main battle tank. It has an 8kg HEAT warhead that will ruin your whole day, and that of everyone within a 20m radius. The fact that the windscreen is intact on the car would indicate something slightly less energetic happened to it.
This is the AP pic of a Red Cross ambulance hit by an Israeli missile in the story linked to by Lobster person:
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