Gaza Hospital What detailed image analysis reveals about civilian deaths
On Tuesday, October 17, Al Jazeera filmed the rooftops of Gaza live as it has been doing every day since the war between Hamas and Israel began. On screen, the TV channel's news banner showed that it was 6:59 pm local time when a light rose into the sky before disappearing into a flash. Eight seconds later, a new flash could be seen, this time on the ground. An explosion soon sounded at the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.
Hamas quickly accused the Israeli army of bombing the hospital. According to them, 471 people were killed in the explosion. IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari denied that the blast came from an Israeli air strike, and instead blamed the damage on "an Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired."
Le Monde has authenticated and analyzed a dozen photos and videos of the blast. While these images cannot be used to ascert the origin of the explosion, they do provide a number of contextual elements, such as the probable trajectory of the projectile, the presence of rockets fired from Gaza in the moments preceding the explosion and the kind of damage that was caused.
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22 октября 2023