The American newspaper The New York Times questioned the Israeli story regarding the bombing that targeted National Hospital “Baptist” In Gazastressing that a close look at the missile video clip cited by Israel does not prove that story.
The newspaper said in its report on the bombing – which took place on the night of October 17 and claimed the lives of hundreds of Palestinian civilians – that a detailed visual analysis it conducted concluded that the video clip cited was taken from a live broadcast from the Al Jazeera TV camera that night and showed something Another said that the missile seen in the video was not likely the cause of what happened to the hospital, adding that this missile actually exploded in the sky, but about two miles away.
Its findings cast doubt on the most widespread Israeli evidence
The New York Times added that its findings do not explain the actual cause of what happened at Al-Ahli Hospital or who is responsible, but its analysis casts doubt on one of the most widely published pieces of evidence that Israeli officials used to present their case and complicates the straightforward narrative they presented.
The New York Times continued that many of the videos it collected and analyzed show that militants in Gaza were firing dozens of rockets from southwest of the hospital minutes before the explosion, and the fiery explosion in the hospital is consistent with a failed rocket falling far short of its intended target.
The footage also indicates – as the report says – that Israeli bombing was occurring, and that two explosions near the hospital could be seen within two minutes of its bombing.
He added that a week after the hospital tragedy, much remains in question, and that the hospital was not directly hit, and whatever the cause of the explosion was, it actually hit the hospital courtyard where people gathered in search of safety, in addition to a group of parked cars.
In response to a question about the newspaper’s findings, a spokesman for the Office of the US Director of National Intelligence said that the newspaper and US intelligence agencies had different interpretations of the video.
Refuting the details of the Israeli story
The New York Times report stated that Israeli officials indicated Video broadcast by Al Jazeera Media Network In media interviews and social media, that video was shared 3 times by the Israeli army on the “X” platform, and the Israeli army identified the moving air object as “a missile directed at Israel that missed and exploded” at approximately the same time as the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion. Israeli army spokesmen also explicitly claimed that this air object was an errant missile that caused the explosion.
The report stated that many media outlets showed that video and cited it as evidence that a Palestinian missile struck the hospital, but the New York Times concluded that the missile in the video was not near the hospital, and was launched from Israel and not from Gaza, and it appears that it exploded over Israel’s borders. -Gaza is at least two miles from the hospital.
He added that to track that object in the sky to Israeli territory, the newspaper synchronized the Al Jazeera footage with 5 other video clips that were filmed at the same time, including footage from the Israeli Channel 12 and a closed-circuit television camera in Tel Aviv.
He said that these various video clips presented a view of the missile from the north, south, east and west, and using satellite images to triangulate the launch point in these video clips, the newspaper determined that the missile was launched towards Gaza from a place near the Israeli town of Nahal Oz shortly before the fatal hospital explosion, adding His findings are consistent with results reached by some researchers online.
Israel deliberately misleads the media and public opinion
It is noteworthy that an investigation conducted by the open source investigative reporting unit of the Al Jazeera network “Sanad” revealed that the Israeli occupation army deliberately misled the media and public opinion in its story about targeting Al-Ahli Hospital, as that investigation was based on analyzing images and building a timeline of events through the live broadcast of Al Jazeera. Which documented the bombing through other live images from inside Israel and scenes from eyewitnesses in Gaza of the moments before the bombing, and identified geographical locations for the main photography directions.
