A Channel 12 News camera placed in Netivot succeeded in capturing footage of a rocket which failed to launch towards Israel and instead fell short, landing in a hospital campus in Gaza.
Presenting the clip. Channel 12 explained what the footage shows, pointing out the hour (6:59p.m.), launch site, and hospital site.
Earlier on Wednesday, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari held a press briefing presenting the proofs that Israel was not responsible for the hospital explosion.
"According to our intelligence, Hamas checked the reports, understood it was an Islamic Jihad rocket that had misfired — and decided to launch a global media campaign to hide what really happened," he said. "They went as far as inflating the number of casualties."
"They understood, with absolute certainty, that it was a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad — that damaged the hospital.
"Analysis of our aerial footage confirms that there was no direct hit of the hospital itself. The only location damaged, is outside the hospital in the parking lot where we can see signs of burning, no cratering and no structural damage to nearby buildings."
Hagari stressed that this is in contradiction to "the damage caused by any aerial munition, which would have been of a different nature: We would have seen craters and structural damage to buildings,both of which haven’t been identified in this incident."
"The size of the damage we see here is due to the warhead of the Islamic Jihad rocket, but most of the rocket's propellent is still evident due to the short flight of the rocket (because the launch failed)."
