How do you know who is to blame for the Gaza hospital explosion?
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In Tel Aviv, Blinken spoke of the importance of aid entering Gaza as soon as possible. He said that there are talks about establishing areas to help keep people safe.
As Palestinians struggle to find safe passage, health care and clean, reliable water a spokesman for Hamas, Ghazi Hamad, remained unrepentant for his group’s attack on Israel.
The Israeli military said that the death toll was higher than it actually was. On Wednesday, the health ministry in Gaza, which is run by the group Hamas, said that over 500 people had died and hundreds more had been injured.
The attack which started this conflict was the one which wanted the attention of the world. We are subjected to torture and collective punishment every single day. That’s our message for the world.”
Some military personnel, children and one Holocaust survivor are among the hostages, an Israeli military spokesman said Tuesday.
He said he was more concerned with the Palestinians than the hostages. Israel has stopped the supply of food and electricity to the Gaza Strip, causing hardship for its 2.3 million residents. Hospitals are struggling to care for thousands of injured people as fuel for generators is running out.
After meetings with Israeli officials, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the U.S. and Israel had agreed to develop a plan to get aid from “donor nations and multilateral organizations” to the besieged Gaza Strip
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Israel’s military said Tuesday that it killed Osama Mazini, a Hamas official who Israel says was responsible for prisoners taken by Hamas and who directed terrorist strikes against Israel.
Amid the growing fears of violence potentially expanding across the region, the White House announced President Biden will visit Tel Aviv and Amman, Jordan, on Wednesday. Vice President Biden will show US support for Israel during his visit. In Amman, Biden will meet with Jordanian King Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
The National Security Council’s spokesman John Kirby said that Vice President Joe Biden would seek an update on the hostages situation while he was in the region.
The Israeli Defense Forces claim that radar data shows a barrage of rockets was launched from an area southwest of the hospital at the time the explosion occurred. There is no way to independently confirm the radar data, since the Al Jazeera video is aligned with that claim.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose members participated in the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, denied that an errant rocket from its arsenal had caused the explosion.
Social media is awash with claims and counterclaims of who was behind the explosion, according to Kolina Koltai, a researcher with the open source investigations group Bellingcat. “Immediately it just became a very confusing situation,” she says. “You have conflicting claims, all this footage.”
The hospital had hundreds of people who came just to hide from the bombardment outside of Gaza, according to Dr. Fadil Muin, the head of the orthopedics department. The hospital is run by Christians.
Several experts in geolocation have shown that the videos show the blast occurring at the hospital and NPR independently was able to verify those geolocations.
There was a live broadcast feed from Al Jazeera that shows a rocket launch from a location west of the hospital. The rocket, or other object, appears to break apart high above the hospital moments before the blast.
The hospital buildings, and a blast zone that was relatively small from the explosion, were shown in the photos from the following day. A large air-dropped bomb which leaves a crater and causes a shock that destroys other structures is not consistent with the damage pattern, says a former targeting officer for the U.S. military.
“It’s very clear to me that this is not an airstrike.” Garlasco says so. Israeli bombs typically leave craters three to ten meters in size, and are designed to create a large shockwave that propels shrapnel over a large area.
He says the lack of damage to the hospital from Israeli bombs is not in line with what they’ve used in the past.
Hamas denies Israel’s involvement in a Palestinian attack on the Gazan army and the night of a rocket blast at the Tel Aviv hospital
Estimates of death vary, but believe they are in the hundreds. Garlasco has investigated war crimes all over the world and he says it would be an extreme high death toll. It was plausible because so many people have left their homes to seek refuge in a few safe places, he said.
The claims have not been independently verified. The New York Times is working to assess the various accounts through an analysis of photos, video footage and other evidence, as well as on-the-ground interviews.
The figures could not be independently confirmed, though video footage verified by The New York Times shows scores of bodies strewn across the hospital’s courtyard.
“Our assessment is based on available reporting, including intelligence, missile activity and open-source video and images of the incident,” she said, adding that the United States was continuing to collect information.
According to the American officials, who are not authorized to speak about sensitive information, there is multiple strands of early intelligence showing a launch of a rocket or missile from Palestinian fighter positions within Gaza. The analysis was preliminary.
Musab Al-Breim, spokesman for the group, told The Times in a phone interview on Wednesday that the weapons capacity wasprimitive.
The group’s military wing posted a message on Telegram at 7:09 p.m. on the night of the explosion saying it had fired a barrage of rockets toward Israel — just minutes after the blast occurred.
He acknowledged the rockets had killed Palestinians in the past. I am not going to deny that we have made mistakes. There are no mistakes of this size.
A Palestinian group fired 10 rockets at the Israeli military in the middle of the night and one of them fell to earth in a parking lot outside a hospital.
He also showed an aerial image that he said was taken from a military drone overnight. In the image, he said, there was no evidence of a crater that would have been caused by an Israeli missile.
Admiral Hagari dismissed suggestions that the strike was caused by an errant Israeli air defense interceptor; he said Israel does not fire air defense missiles into Gazan airspace.
The admiral played a recording of what he said was a wiretapped conversation between two Hamas members, in which one speaker says the damage was caused by a rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad from a cemetery near the hospital. The Times is assessing the material and has not verified the conversation.
Yousef Abu al-Rish, the top official for the Gazan health ministry, said at a news conference on Tuesday night that the Israeli military had called the hospital director and told him that the earlier blast had been a warning to evacuate.
Archbishop Naoum said the warnings were particular to the hospital, and not part of Israel’s wider push to encourage civilians to leave northern Gaza for the territory’s south.
Amnon Shefler said the calls to the hospital were part of a larger campaign to encourage civilians to leave northern Gaza. Colonel Shefler said the hospital was not a target for the military.
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“There’s just been this massive sort of pressure to get videos out there, get your take, get your analysis, and it’s like a perfect storm for chaos,” Kolina Koltai, a senior researcher at open source intelligence (OSINT) news outlet Bellingcat, tells WIRED.
The Gaza health ministry on Wednesday said that over 500 people have been killed and over 300 others have been injured after a rocket hit a hospital in Tel Aviv. The Israeli military said that a barrage of rockets was launched from an area southwest of the hospital at the time the explosion occurred.