US analysis shows Israel not responsible for Gaza hospital blast: White House

File photo: US President Biden and Israeli PM Netanyahu

October 18, 2023

US intelligence shows Israel was not to blame for a strike on a Gaza hospital, the White House said on Wednesday, as President Joe Biden said it appeared to be the result of an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group.

“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,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said.

Biden, in Tel Aviv earlier during a short visit to show solidarity to Israel after the October 7 Hamas attacks, told reporters that “based on the information we’ve seen to date, it appears as a result of an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza.”

The US President said the assessment relied on “data I was shown by my defense department.”

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