U.S. intelligence officials say that they have multiple pieces of evidence that indicate that Palestinian terrorists were responsible for an explosion in the parking lot of a hospital inside Gaza on Tuesday that ignited international fury after false claims went viral on social media and in news coverage that claimed that Israel bombed the hospital.
The New York Times reported that sources inside the intelligence community have “satellite and other infrared data showing a launch of a rocket or missile from Palestinian fighter positions within Gaza.” These same systems were the first to detect that Russia shot down a Malaysian passenger plane over Ukraine in 2014, the report said.
“While we continue to collect information, our current assessment, based on analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts and open-source information, is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday,” said Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council.
