The assessment was based on classified information, satellite imagery, and intelligence shared by other countries.
An assessment by French military intelligence indicates the most likely cause of the deadly explosion at Gaza City’s al-Ahli hospital was a Palestinian rocket that carried an explosive charge of about 5 kilograms and possibly misfired, a senior French military official said Friday.
The size of the blast crater in a courtyard of the hospital was assessed by French military intelligence to be about a metre long, 75 centimetres across and about 30 to 40 centimetres deep. Israel denied it was involved and released live video, audio and other evidence it said showed the blast was caused by a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian militant group.The death toll remains in dispute. Within just over an hour of the blast, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said 500 had died.People look at the destruction left from an Israeli army raid on a Palestinian refugee camp, Nur Shams, in the West Bank, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023.
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