Live updates on the Israel-Gaza conflict.

President Joe Biden was asked by a reporter in Israel on Wednesday what made him confident that the Israelis weren’t behind the explosion that killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday.

Biden responded that it was “the data I was shown by my Defense Department.”

Two U.S. officials told ABC News the Pentagon independently concluded the Gaza hospital blast was likely caused by an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that fell short of its target.

    • @Stamau123OPEnglish
      17•1 year ago

      I mean, it doesn’t appear to be out of the range of their other ordinance. Cars burnt out but Clay tiled awning still uncracked, road appears drivable. Unless you’re still working with the outdated information that this was an airstrike that killed ~500

    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 year ago

      If Israel was going to blow up a hospital, they would have done a better job. It’s pretty much the same blowback for partially and completely destroying one.

      • @[email protected]English
        -1•1 year ago

        https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-case-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-262086

        Well heres one hospital strike in 2014 that the consensus is they are responsible for, and again it was a strike that hit off to the side and they claimed someone else did. So in the case where this would have been Isreals fault, it would look very similar to another hospital strike they did do.

        They even used the same excuse blaming Gaza terror organizations, not Hamas directly.

    • donuts
      4•1 year ago

      Hamas has fired hundreds of rockets towards Israel. (Pretty much all of them seem to have been blown out of the sky by the “iron dome” defense system.)