US newspaper: Missile that targeted “Baptist Hospital” was not launched from Gaza

NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (YPA) – The New York Times has refuted a story by the Israeli occupation army that said the missile that hit Baptist Hospital was launched from Gaza.

The newspaper indicated that the missile in the video on which the Israeli occupation relied was not launched from the Gaza Strip.

In a report entitled “A closer look at some of the key evidence in the Gaza hospital explosion,” the American newspaper said that “the video shows a shell penetrating the dark Gaza sky and exploding in the air, and seconds later another explosion was seen on the ground.”

“This footage has become widely cited evidence, as Israeli and American officials confirmed that a stray Palestinian missile malfunctioned in the sky, fell to the ground, and caused a fatal explosion at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City,” the report explained.

The newspaper’s report confirmed that the detailed visual analysis it conducted concluded that the video clip taken from the Al Jazeera TV camera, which was broadcast live on the night of October 17, shows something else. It is likely that the missile shown in the video is not the one that caused the explosion in the hospital.

The report pointed out that “the bomb that exploded in the sky approximately two miles away was not related to the fighting that broke out on the border between the occupation army and Gaza that night.”

It added: “The footage also indicates that an Israeli bombing occurred and that two explosions could be seen near the hospital within two minutes of its bombing.”

In response to a question about the newspaper’s findings, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that the New York Times and US intelligence agencies had different interpretations of the video.

YPA