“Imagery, Intercepts” Show Israel Not Behind Gaza Hospital Strike, Says US

Almost 500 folks have been killed within the explosion.

Washington:

US intelligence reveals Israel was to not blame for a strike on a Gaza hospital, the White Home mentioned Wednesday, as President Joe Biden mentioned it gave the impression to be the results of a misfired rocket fired by a “terrorist group”.

Biden has backed Israel’s insistence that it didn’t perform Tuesday’s hospital strike that killed a number of hundred folks. The Palestinian group Hamas says Israel was accountable.

“Whereas we proceed to gather info, our present evaluation, primarily based on evaluation of overhead imagery, intercepts and open supply info, is that Israel will not be chargeable for the explosion on the hospital in Gaza yesterday,” Nationwide Safety Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson mentioned on social media.

The US intelligence included satellite tv for pc and infrared knowledge displaying the launch of a projectile from the positions inside Gaza, the New York Instances reported, citing US officers.

Israeli officers had provided Washington with intercepted communications between Hamas officers, whereas US intelligence had additionally checked out open supply video of the launch, it mentioned.

Biden, in Tel Aviv throughout a brief go to to point out solidarity to Israel after the October 7 Hamas assaults, informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu it appeared the strike was “achieved by the opposite workforce”.

The US president later gave a firmer attribution of blame, saying that “primarily based on the knowledge we have seen thus far, it seems on account of an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza.”

He mentioned the evaluation relied on “knowledge I used to be proven by my protection division.”

There was no speedy remark from the Pentagon.

The hospital strike killed 471 folks, in response to Gaza’s Hamas-controlled well being ministry, and has sparked anger throughout the Arab and Muslim world.

Hamas mentioned after the explosion on Tuesday that the trigger was an Israeli air strike.

Israel has mentioned the Islamic Jihad group had prompted the explosion with a misfired rocket.

Israel has been finishing up a marketing campaign of air and artillery strikes on Gaza because the Hamas assault when some 1,400 folks have been shot, stabbed or burnt to demise, and 199 taken hostage.

Gaza well being officers say greater than 3,400 folks have been killed in Israeli strikes on the enclave because the.

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